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Expositions on the Book of Psalms.: Part 2
The Second Part.
1. For, behold, the Jews are enemies, whom this Psalm seemeth to imply; the law of God they hold, and therefore of them hath been said, "Slay not them, lest sometime they forget Thy law:" in order that the nation of Jews might remain, and by it remaining the number of Christians might increase. Throughout all nations they remain certainly, and Jews they are, nor have they ceased to be what they were: that is, this nation hath not so yielded to Roman institutions, as to have lost the form of Jews; but hath been subjected to the Romans so as that it still retaineth its own laws; which are the laws of God. But what in their case hath been done? "Ye tithe mint and cummin, and have p. 242 forsaken the weightier matters of the law, mercy, and judgment, straining a gnat, but swallowing a camel." 2262 This to them the Lord saith. And in truth so they are; they hold the law, hold the Prophets; read all things, sing all things: the light of the Prophets therein they see not, which is Christ Jesus. Not only Him now they see not, when he is sitting in Heaven: but not even at that time saw they Him, when among them humble He was walking, and they were made guilty by shedding the blood of the Same; but not all. This even to-day we commend to the notice of your Love. Not all: because many of them were turned to Him whom they slew, and by believing on Him, they obtained pardon even for the shedding of His blood: and they have given an example for men; how they ought not to despair that sin of whatsoever kind would be remitted to them, since even the killing of Christ was remitted to them confessing.…
2. What in them wilt Thou slay? The Crucify, Crucify, 2263 which they cried out, not them that cried out. For they willed to blot out, cut off, destroy Christ: but Thou, by raising to life Christ, whom they willed to destroy, dost slay the "transgressions of their mouth, the discourse of their lips." For in that He whom they cried out should be destroyed, liveth, they are taken with dread: and that He whom on earth they despised, in heaven is adored by all nations, they wonder: thus are there slain the transgressions of them, and the discourse of their lips. What is, "let them be taken in their pride"? Because to no purpose have strong men rushed on, and it hath fallen out to them as it were to think themselves to have done somewhat, and they have prevailed against the Lord. They were able to crucify a man, weakness might prevail and virtue 2264 be slain; and they thought themselves somewhat, as it were strong men, as it were mighty men, as it were prevailing, as it were a lion prepared for prey, as it were fat bulls, as of them in another place he maketh mention: "Fat bulls have beset me." 2265 But what have they done in the case of Christ? Not life, but death they have slain.…And what now hath come to pass in those men that have been converted? For it was told to them that He whom they slew rose again. They believed Him to have risen again, because they saw that He, being in Heaven, thence sent the Holy Spirit, and filled those that on Him believed; and they found themselves to have condemned nought, and to have done nought. Their doing issued in emptiness, the sin remained. Because therefore the doing was made void, but the sin remained upon the doers; they were taken in their pride, they saw themselves under their iniquity. 2266 It remained therefore for them to confess the sin, and for Him to pardon, that had given Himself up to sinners, and to forgive His death, having been slain by men dead, and making alive men dead. They were taken therefore in their pride.
3. "And out of cursing and lying shall be declared consummations, in anger of consummation, and they shall not be." This too with difficulty is understood, to what is joined the "and they shall not be." What shall they not be? Let us therefore examine the context above: when they shall have been taken in their pride, "there shall be declared out of cursing and lying consummations." What are consummations? Perfections: for to be consummated, is to be perfected. One thing it is to be consummated, another thing to be consumed. For a thing is consummated which is so finished as that it is perfected: a thing is consumed which is so finished that it is not. Pride would not suffer a man to be perfected, nothing so much hindereth perfection. For let your Love attend a little to what I am saying; and see an evil very pernicious, very much to be guarded against. What sort of evil do ye think it is? How long could I enlarge upon how much evil there is in pride? The devil on that account alone is to be punished. Certes he is the chief of all sinners: certes he is the tempter to sin: to him is not ascribed adultery, not wine-bibbing, not fornication, not the robbing of others goods: by pride alone he fell. And since prides companion is envy, it must needs be that a proud man should envy.…In a word, all vices in evil-doings are to be feared, pride in well-doings is more to be feared. It is no wonder, then, that so humble is the Apostle, as to say, "When I am made weak, then I am strong." 2267 For lest he should himself be tempted by this sin, what sort of medicine doth he say was applied to him against swelling by the Physician, who knew what He was healing? "Lest by the greatness," he saith, "of the revelations I should be exalted, there was given to me a thorn of my flesh, the angel of Satan, to buffet me: wherefore thrice the Lord I besought, that it should depart from me: and He said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for virtue in weakness is made perfect." 2268 See what the consummations are. An Apostle, the teacher of Gentiles, father of the faithful through the Gospel, received a thorn of the flesh whereby he might be buffeted. Which of us would dare to say this, unless he had not been ashamed to confess this? For if we shall have said that Paul had not suffered this; while to him as it were honour we give, a liar we make him. But bep. 243 cause truthful he is, and truth he hath spoken; it behoveth us to believe that there was given to him an angel of Satan, lest by the greatness of the revelations he should be exalted. Behold how much to be feared is the serpent of pride.…
4. What is, "in the anger of consummation shall be declared consummations"? There is an anger of consummation, and there is an anger of consuming. For every vengeance of God is called anger: sometimes God avengeth, to the end that He may make perfect; sometimes He avengeth, to the end that He may condemn. How doth He avenge, to the end that He may make perfect? "He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth." 2269 How doth He avenge, to the end that He may condemn? When He shall have set ungodly men on the left hand, and shall have said to them, "Go ye into fire everlasting, that hath been prepared for the devil and his angels." 2270 This is the anger of consuming, not that of consummation. But "there shall be declared consummations in the anger of consummation;" it shall be preached by the Apostles, that "where sin hath abounded, grace shall much more abound," 2271 and the weakness of man hath belonged to the healing of humility. Those men thinking of this, and finding out and confessing their iniquities, "shall not be." "Shall not be" what? In their pride.
5. "And they shall know how God shall have dominion of Jacob, and of the ends of the earth" (Psa. 59.13). For before they thought themselves just men, because the Jewish nation had received the Law, because it had kept the commandments of God: it is proved to them that it hath not kept them, since in the very commandments of God Christ it perceived not, because "blindness in part has happened to Israel." 2272 Even the Jews themselves see that they ought not to despise the Gentiles, of whom they deemed as of dogs and sinners. For just as alike they have been found in iniquity, so alike they will attain unto salvation. "Not only to Jews," saith the Apostle, "but also even to Gentiles." 2273 For to this end the Stone which the builders set at nought, hath even been made for the Head of the corner, 2274 in order that two in itself It might join: for a corner doth unite two walls. The Jews thought themselves exalted and great: of the Gentiles they thought as weak, as sinners, as the servants of demons, as the worshippers of idols, and yet in both was there iniquity. Even the Jews have been proved sinners; because "there is none that doeth good, there is not even so much as one:" 2275 they have laid down their pride, and have not envied the salvation of the Gentiles, because they have known their own and their weakness to be alike: and in the Corner Stone being united, they have together worshipped the Lord.…
6. "They shall be converted at evening" (Psa. 59.14): that is, even if late, that is, after the slaying of our Lord Jesus Christ: "They shall be converted at evening: and hereafter they shall suffer hunger as dogs." But "as dogs," not as sheep or calves: "as dogs," as Gentiles, as sinners; because they too have known their sin that thought themselves righteous.…It is a good thing therefore for a sinner to be humbled; and no one is more incurable than he that thinketh himself whole. "And they shall go around the city." Already we have explained "city;" 2276 it is the "city of standing round;" all nations.
7. "They shall be scattered abroad in order that they may eat" (Psa. 59.15); that is, in order that they may gain others, in order that into their Body they may change believers. "But if they shall not be filled, they shall murmur." Because above also he had spoken of the murmur of them, saying, "For who hath heard?" "And Thou, O Lord," he saith, "shall deride them, saying, Who hath heard?" 2277 Wherefore? Because, as nothing Thou shall count all nations. Let the Psalm be concluded. See ye the Corner 2278 exulting, now with both walls rejoicing. The Jews were proud, humbled they have been; Gentiles were despairing, raised up they have been: let them come to the Corner, there let them meet, there run together, there find the kiss of peace; from different parts let them come, but with differing not come, those of Circumcision, these of uncircumcision. Far apart were the walls, but before that to the Corner they came: but in the Corner let them hold themselves, and now let the whole Church from both walls, say what? "But I will sing of Thy power, and I will exult in the morning of Thy mercy" (Psa. 59.16). In the morning when temptations have been overcome, in the morning when the night of this world shall have passed away; in the morning when no longer the lyings in wait of robbers and of the devil and of his angels we dread, in the morning when no longer by the lamp of prophecy we walk, but Himself the Word of God as it were a Sun we contemplate. "And I will exult in the morning of Thy mercy." With reason in another Psalm is said, "In the morning I will stand by Thee, and I will meditate." 2279 With reason also of the Lord Himself the Resurrection was at dawn, that there should be fulfilled that which hath been said in another Psalm, "In the evening shall tarry weeping and in the morning exultation." 2280 For at even the disciples mourned our Lord Jesus p. 244 Christ as dead, at dawn at Him rising again they exulted. "For Thou hast become my taker up, and my refuge in the day of my tribulation."
8. "My Helper, to Thee I will play, because Thou, O God, art my taker up" (Psa. 59.17). What was I, unless Thou didst succour? How much despaired of was I, unless Thou didst heal? Where was I lying, unless Thou didst come to me? Certes with a huge wound I was endangered, but that wound of mine did call for an Almighty Physician. To an Almighty Physician nothing is incurable.…Lastly, thinking of all good things whatsoever we may have, either in nature or in purpose, or in conversion itself, in faith, in hope, in charity, in good morals, in justice, in fear of God; all these to be only by His gifts, he hath thus concluded: "My God is my mercy:" He being filled with the good things of God hath not found what he might call his God, save "his mercy." O name, under which no one must despair! If thou say, my salvation, I perceive that He giveth salvation; if thou say, my refuge, I perceive that thou takest refuge in Him; if thou say, my strength, I perceive that He giveth to thee strength: "my mercy," is what? All that I am is of Thy mercy.…
Matt. 23:23, 24.242:2263
Matt. 27:23, John 19:5.242:2264
Or, "strength."242:2265
Ps. xxii. 12.242:2266
Acts 1:9, Acts 2:4, 37.242:2267
2 Cor. xii. 10.242:2268
2 Cor. xii. 7-9.243:2269
Heb. xii. 6.243:2270
Matt. xxv. 41.243:2271
Rom. v. 20.243:2272
Rom. xi. 25.243:2273
Rom. ii. 10.243:2274
Ps. cxviii. 22.243:2275
Ps. xiv. 3.243:2276
See p. 240, note 2.243:2277
Ps. lix. 7.243:2278
Eph. ii. 20.243:2279
Ps. v. 3.243:2280
Ps. xxx. 5.
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Speaking before what will be his final NBA lottery, the 70-year-old Stern admitted Tuesday he has made some mistakes in running the league but noted that not every decision has a happy ending.
Stern announced earlier this season that he will step down on Feb, 1, coinciding with his 30th year on the job.
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Stern has some negatives on his resume including a couple of work stoppages, Seattle's loss of a franchise and other money losing ventures.
"Yes, I wish every incident had a happy ending, but there are some unhappy endings and some where one party is happy and another isn't," Stern said. "I was thinking about this, there have been plenty of things I wish I had a do-over on."
Stern said the initial model for WNBA — NBA teams owned the franchises — was a mistake. He also said the D-League is "chugging" and the league's decision to open offices internationally was a mistake.
While the four teams left in the playoffs — Miami, Indiana, San Antonio, Memphis — are in the lower half of the television market in terms of size, Stern wasn't upset.
"We are delighted that the best teams are having a great run and our TV markets are also happy," he said.
Stern also doesn't intend to fade away.
"I have lots of other things that I am very interested in, stay tuned I will not be inactive," he said.
He also was proud of his tenure.
"I feel very good about the 30 years," he said. "I think I have a great job and it's been a great run. I am turning over the league in good shape to Adam, who will take it to new heights."
Stern opened his press conference by mentioning tornado-ravaged Oklahoma.
"It has occupied much of our time and certainly our thoughts and certainly our thoughts of so many of our teams and team owners who have been calling their contacts at the team," he said. "We have been speaking with Clay Bennett on a regular basis."
The league and players association donated $1 million on Tuesday to the relief effort for the area.
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|View Poll Results: Umineko no Naku Koro ni (Season 1) - Overall Series Impressions & Total Series Rating
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|2010-05-12, 01:49
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Good Parts:
Voice Acting
I like most of Umineko seiyuus, especially Battler, Beato & Maria. They really did a good job potraying their character personality
Love the OP song by Shikata Akiko. The ED song was okay but not my favorite. The BGMs were pretty good, though I wish they played more "haunting" music for horror scene.
Character Design
The character design is really good. Simple & neat, it's my favorite drawing style
I think the design is one of strongest point to attract audiences to watch this anime.
Bad Parts:
Story Telling
Umineko (VN) series is one of greatest stories I've ever known. I really like the plot.Too bad, the plot was rushed too much, causing many parts (which some are important parts) of original VN plot shortened even removed & confusing anime only viewers (like part where Eva solved the riddle). Though, some scenes were replaced with better one, for example Rosa's horror banquet & Ep3 2nd twilight.
But I didn't like when they prolonged less important scene, like Ange & Kasumi's at Ep4 adaptation
Characterization in Umineko is less "cliche" than other animes (for instance, I've never saw anime mom with Rosa's personality before).
Sadly, the fast forwarded adaptation rendered down most personalities of characters, due their short screen times. I don't like this adaptation did with Battler, Kinzo & Rosa's. Their anime version (personality) is worse than VN. Only Maria & Ange that was given good flashback (Eva's was too short ), while others just being told in dialogue or never mentioned at all...
Umineko is a great series with great characters but it was screwed up, due poor adaptation. The technical adaptation, such as character design & music is very good
Rushed plot is the one that made the adaptation turned out dissapointing
I don't mind if DEEN re-created the anime once again,like FMA Brotherhood case..of course, with better plot
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The voice acting cast assembled for Umineko no Naku Koro ni was above the par of most series in that is contains a few veterans, and some rookies. Among the 'great' that takes part in the series is Ono Daisuke (Ushiromiya Battler). Known for his other roles in anime (especially Koizumi Itsuki from Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu), his attitude and style fits the part perfectly. We also get to enjoy the sounds of Sayaka Ohara (Beatrice), Yui Horie (Ushiromiya Maria), Tomokazu Sugita (Ronove), Rie Kugimiya (Shannon), and among the name we also get known K-ON! seiyuu's Toyosaki Aki (Hirasawa Yui) and Yoko Hikasa (Akiyama Mio). Overall, the cast fits their roles greatly and were exceptionally delicious.
Score: 9/10
The OP and ED for the series exceptional, and the BGM's fit the mood.
Score: 9/10
Character Design:
The designs used for the characters and quality and up to modern standards of animation. However, they are simple, neat, and clean. One of the best drawing styles you can use for an animated series.
Score: 10/10
Story Telling:
While the plot for the series was exceptional, allowing for an occasional 'wtf moment', 'mind screw', or great murder scene, the original visual novel plot must be taken into account while we grade this. Because this came from a visual novel, the content for the anime was substantial. While it could have slowed down the pace a bit while cutting out some material (which is expected from the conversion), they didn't. They decided to include all the details but rush it at the same time, which makes the enrapturement from the plot lesser than intended.
Score: 6/10
The series contained bits and pieces of characterization for most of the characters due to it's 'rushed' plot. Only some characters (less important ones) received flashbacks or substantial background coverage (Ange/Maria, for example).
Score: 6/10
Overall Score: 7/10
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Voice Acting
The voice acting in this anime was one of the most enjoyable parts. I found that each voice was what I was expecting, Yuki Kaida (Gaap) aside, for I wasn't expecting such a mature voice. That, however, was a pleasant surprise. While the most enjoyable voices for me were Daisuke Ono (Battler Ushiromiya), Sayaka Ohara (Beatrice), and Yui Horie (Maria), I, as stated before, thought this cast fit the characters to a "T". There were no instances in which I thought a voice didn't fit a character or that I felt an actor didn't deliver a line correctly or effectively.
Rating: 10/10
The OP was absolutely beautiful and quite addicting; nothing less to be expected from Akiko Shikata. The ED was very...interesting, but enjoyable and great to listen to nonetheless. The BGM could have been improved in certain areas, most notably horror scenes, but usually fit the the scene.
Rating: 9/10
Story Telling/Adaption
It would be quite difficult to rate this without keeping the VN/SN in mind, so I feel it's necessary to incorporate that into this part of the review. The plot of Umineko is one of the greatest plots I've encountered in my life. However, in the conversion from VN to anime, some scenes were lost, which was to be expected, as was story and character development. While DEEN did their best to fit in all the information into 26 episodes, they diminished the effect in doing so, and, in turn, made the plot a lot less enjoyable/understandable. In the beginning, it was impossible for someone who had no experience with the VN to understand most of the characters' personalities at all before the first twilight or said person's death. Also, some scenes that were cut could have been included if DEEN had discarded unnecessary instances of fanservice, when they could have just as easily provided the fanservice already in the VN. Overall, while the VN was great, the anime wasn't exactly up to par.
Rating: 6/10
This anime's animation was by no means horrible. It didn't cause bleeding of the eyes or the want to simply look away. While it did have it's off moments, such as Maria's "creepy" faces, certain "troll" faces, obnoxiously large breasts, and other, lesser instances, it was not be any means bad. It was even, in some scenes, graceful.
Character Design
The designs were very fresh, neat, and pleasant to look at. The attractive way the characters were drawn were very appealing to the viewer's eyes. Such clear designs most likely contributed to the previously mentioned animation quality.
Rating: 10/10
Overall Rating: 8/10
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Eh... This topic is only somewhat inactive, no? I'd like to put my opinion in...
Animation Quality
My main complaint here lies in the almost seemingly childish mind of the head animator. There are unrealistically large breasts that are constantly focused on.
Other than the above critique, the animation style was actually an acquired taste for myself. And, of course, I acquired it in no time at all! I was taken aback by Battler's hair upon first watching the series, though I quickly was used to it.
Only problem other than the first one was Maria had unrealistic faces a lot for no reason. =/
Animation Score: 7/10
Voice Actors
I'll start this section being frank, and admitting that awhilst watching a Japanese anime with subs, I don't tend to listen to the voices, rather than read the subs. HOWEVER, upon thinking back on the voice acting, I found myself pleased with it. The voices were cast brilliantly for the characters, in my opinion. So, I'm going to give this section a perfect scoring.
Voice Acting Score: 10/10
Script/Adaption from game
And this is where my quarrels begin to lie... You see, I watched the anime first, thought it was pretty good. Bought the games and patched them, played them, and...
I honestly was getting sick over it. The anime failed to bring as much to the table as did the games. In fact, that's an understatement. It's as if the anime's script were a kiddie table you build legos on and the games were a banquet table made for thirty. The games had more character development, more explained, more information, and was really, just better. So yes, the anime gets a very low score here, for me.
Script/Adaption from the game score: 5/10
My opinion on the anime, ignoring what it lacks in comparison to the games/Overall score
Honestly, I immensely enjoyed the anime. I thought the idea of someone trying to disprove something, when that something is torturing them in every way was amazing. I was sold on the series after the last part of Arc 3 "Swindles." However... While I was playing the games, I was sold at the Tea Party of Episode one... So yes, the anime fails in comparison the games, but is great at standing alone, in my opinion.
A great anime, though in my opinion, underrated due to how it fails to stand up to it's video game counterparts.
|2010-06-24, 15:59
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Animation Quality: 7
Voice Actors: 10
Script: 8
Adaptation from Game: 7
Editing: 7
I don't understand all this hate for Umineko. I thought it was a good adaption. Of course, it fades in comparison, but what doesn't?
The animations were choppy at some scenes (Rosa slapping Maria at the train, etc), but overall I don't have any complaints.
I even dare say that the first arc was done brilliantly.
|2010-06-25, 18:23
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I can understand preferring the visual novel over the anime. But some people take it to such an extreme and bash the anime whenever they can, and it's seriously annoying.
|2010-06-26, 00:42
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While I do agree taking every chance to complain about the anime's bad points is lame, the anime is honestly just not that good when you compare it to the VN. I mean, take the ending of Episode 4 of the VN, compare it to episode 26 of the anime.
When Beatrice asked "Who am I?" In the anime. I was like "Woah, deep."
When Beatrice asked the same question in the VN, I literally peed myself just because of how creepily she set it up. She also used red text to clarify that she was standing in front of Battler, about to kill him.
The VNs tend to make much greater impacts than the anime for the people who play them.
|2010-06-26, 07:57
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That said, the anime is nothing compared to the anime. I would probably have bought the season, if I coulkd get it with subs.
|2010-09-08, 13:43
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Have some salt
The third arc was the best especially with the way that concluded, and the fourth arc was going really well til the end. But the last episode was so bad, I'd almost rather have it just end on the first part of episode 26.
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|2010-09-08, 15:18
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Have some salt
In an ideal world that would be possible and most certainly would be better. But then you'd need like 4+ seasons for the whole series, and then budget crap and maybe they didn't want that kind of commitment.
But given the poor sales, that might have been worth in the long run...
|2010-09-09, 01:54
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Still, I think the anime did a good job portraying everything just enough so when season 2 comes out if ever those that didn't play the game will get the "oh, so that's how it was".
That was my personal reaction with higurashi. I originally had an internal swear not to read any "when they cry" games because I know I would be addicted. But, just last month I became the cat and voila I'm hooked to it and only then did I know the name Ryuukishi07, just as i feared
I still haven't played Higurashi though.
|2010-12-14, 02:25
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Animation: 8/10 Nice, but some parts were a bit choppy.
Voice Actors: 9.5/10 Oho. Wonderful, wonderful VAing. Special mention to Tomokazu Sugita(Ronove).
Music: 8.5/10 I LOVED the opening, but they really should have kept the VN BGM. And the ending was a little too trippy for me
Adaptation from Game: 3/10 DEEEEEEEEEEEEN! It had plot holes so wide you couldn't see across. Dragon-Kinzo was awesome though lololol
Character Design: 7/10 Most of the character designs were nice, but the women... TOO. MUCH. GAINAXING. Seriously, it's like Rosa and Ange are the only women in the series who've ever heard of a bra.
Overall: 7.2/10 It was meh. DEEN could have done a MUCH better job with the adaption. However, it wasn't like the worst thing EVAR. If there's a second season, cross your fingers and hope DEEN learned from its mistakes.
|2010-12-20, 16:57
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Animation Quality: 8/10: Probably the biggest reason for me to watch this was to see how the characters would look drawn "well", and Deen did not disappoint. Sure the overall look is quite generic and the animation get kinda unrefined once it zooms out, but they remained faithful to the original designs,
and all characters looked like themselves. That being said, the oversized breast proprtions of some characters kinda disturbed me.
Voice Actors: 9/10: Everyone sounded exactly like i thought they would!
The actor i enjoyed the most would be Daisuke Ono as Battler, he really nailed the performance perfectly.
Adaptation from Game: 4/10: Everything was faitful enough, but so much was taken out that the end result felt like a slideshow. I found it to work surprisingly well as a summary of sort to refresh my mind at times. But this is not what an anime adaptation should be, as it is, if you plan to introduce yourself to Umineko, you should just play the novel first instead of it just being for ones who'd like a little more information.
Music: 7/10: I was pleasantly surprised to find that the anime actually uses a largy amount of remixed music from the VN. Unfortunately, the music selection and when they play seem kinda odd. WHERE'S DREAD OF THE GRAVE?
Overall: 6/10: The end result is not too bad, it's cool that they used music from the VN and seeing and hearing the familiar characters this way is also worth watching for. Unfortunately, the anime completely fails at the most important aspect, the story. And i can't really reccomend it to anyone other than those who has already read the VN and just want something extra.
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Animation: 7/10
If I compare it to the original art, then it would be 10/10, I'd take unnecessary gore over blurred backgrounds and weirdly proportioned sprites any day.
Voice actors: 8/10
Nothing bad, they sounded great. Cept for that Uu-Uu, it sticks to my mind like glue.
Adaptation from game:4/10
In the end it felt like the best way to watch the anime was for the story(which is full of plot holes.) and play the game for the mysteries instead, which was why I got into Umineko.
They left out the more important deductions/ theory crackings and fleshed out the characters more, but with some missing scenes it just didn't flesh them out enough. (I mean, we almost saw krauss get some character development, then bam, he's dead.)
Music: 7/10
Music didn't have the impact it did in the VN had, it wasn't the voices, I played ep1 in PS3 mode (which had voices). Though the OP and ED has great synergy with Umineko itself.
Overall: 6.5/10
Sadly, it fails to fully let the audience experience the world of rokkenjima and the suspense and thrill, as well as sense of dread when the murders happened.
You don't get the same feeling when you watch the anime, feels as though it was more strangers dead, instead of the tension that creeps up as the survivors slowly decrease...
|2011-08-20, 11:37
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I saw the anime before I read the VN. I never read the Higurashi VNs, and I thought since the Higurashi anime was quite fun (especially the second season) I'll give Umineko a go.
Animation Quality: 7
Compared to Higurashi, I thought Umineko's animation was much more consistent. QUALITY happens no matter which studio you go to. I do feel that they did get lazier with it in EP 4. Oh and Maria's facial expressions were just terrible. The character designs were nice though.
Voice Actors: 10
Haha, I loved the voice actors, mostly because of Bernkastel and Beatrice. I felt Episode 2's Tea Party was a great performance by all those involved. Even though I hated her expressions, I loved the way Maria's VN did the switch from little child to psycho.
Script: 4
I watched the anime before I read the VNs. I actually stopped watching it halfway through Turn, because I was severely confused by the premise. Legend's ???? Tea Party didn't do anything for the plot. Characters pop out of the woodwork, and magic appears to be nothing but a delusion. 1998 also made very little sense.
Adaptation from Game: 1
Oh my. There were a lot more clues, more red, more awesome music in the VN!
Yeah, Golden Slaughterer is fun, but why do you play it every chapter. How do you cut out Hope and all of the songs that share its theme? I felt the music was way too low, and was the Sound Novel's best trait. I'm jamming out to the Music Box right now. I guess if you don't know what you're missing, you can't miss it.
And the clues! There's more to Kinzo than what the anime shows you, there's more to the servants. I haven't read Chiru yet, so I don't know what's a red herring or a legitimate clue, but still... Ryukishi himself said it was possible to solve the epitaph by the end of Banquet. I don't think it's possible to solve it after watching the anime.
Lot's of red was taken out as well, but this seems to have already been discussed.
Finally, the deepest core of the story was just glossed over. The thing that makes Umineko truly When They Cry 3, a sequel to Higurashi, is explored a lot more in the VNs.
Overall Umineko was very difficult to follow before reading the VN, and just a huge fail after reading the VN. DEEN is incompetent!
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"There's nobody in there that wants to play hockey right now, and I think everybody understands that when you've witnessed what they had to witness and that's their teammate," Stars coach Lindy Ruff said afterward. "And that's the right place to be. That's the right emotion to have. They're not doing very good, and I wouldn't expect them to be."
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There's a recent comment that reminds me of a deplorable line of argument I've seen repeatedly but don't I've ever addressed:
Nobody has universal healthcare. Not even after it's fully implemented will it be honestly "universal".
Obama handed corporations billions of dollars in enforced customers that hopefully will be better than having no healthcare at all.
Creepy how Obama supporters never did the math on how much corporations could be expected to profit from Obama's plan until there was fear that the Supreme Court might eliminate it.
Suddenly there were pseudo-liberals trying to explain how bad the elimination of Obamacare would be to _corporation's profitability_.
And yes, that's closet Republicanism: Corporations profiting from expanded government.
Liberals, true liberals, know that it would have been more efficient and cost-effective to go straight to any of a dozen superior healthcare models that the rest of the industrialized world uses: Namely, telling corporations to go F# themselves.
While stated in crude and extreme form, this became a fairly common routine among leftier-than-thou critics of the ACA (and/or NFIB v. Sebelius.) John Roberts was just "bailing out" the health insurance industry or some such. (The theory that John Roberts is the only Republican in America sensitive to corporate interests is…not plausible, but moving right along.) I understand perfectly well that single-payer would be a superior system, but in the context of American politics, this is beside the point — if you have further complaints, direct them to James Madison.
There are two obvious problems with this argument. First, it proves too much. By the same logic, progressives should oppose food stamps because they're really just bailouts of Big Food and Big Retail, and the federal government shouldn't try to help poor people get food with anything but rations provided by state agencies. The fact is, when you get money into the hands of poor people, a lot of it is going to end up in the hands of Wal-Mart or Target or whatever. This is a really bad argument for opposing welfare programs. Second, I don't think these claims that private health insurance are worthless are remotely credible. Do you have health insurance through your employer? Would you give it up for an increase in wages? I sure wouldn't. Does anyone really think that health care is no more accessible for middle class people in Massachusetts than it is in Mississippi?
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As with any software, SQL Server contains many back doors and other undocumented features that programmers use. Using only documented and supported features has many benefits: Your code is less prone to failures, you can more smoothly upgrade to newer SQL Server releases, porting your code to other platforms is easier, and so on. However, programmers sometimes use undocumented features and back doors to gain short-term benefits such as finishing a specific task quickly and because alternatives aren't always available. Microsoft left many features undocumented so that the SQL Server product developers could freely change those features in later releases or even service packs. Therefore, an undocumented feature carries a risk that it will change at some point. Also, you can't get help from Microsoft if undocumented features don't work the way you expect them to.
Programmers often use back doors to circumvent product limitations, such as not allowing the use of ORDER BY in a view—but these limitations were generally imposed for good reasons, such as to comply with ANSI standards. So, despite the short-term benefits of using back doors, you'll most likely pay when you try to upgrade your SQL Server—the undocumented features you used might not work anymore. This article is the first in a series exploring some undocumented features and back doors that T-SQL programmers use. Though I don't recommend using them, I hope to familiarize you with them so that you're better prepared when you run across such code—and, I have to admit, because back doors are fun! This article looks at features related to stored procedures.
Special Procedures
T-SQL developers and DBAs commonly use special procedures for metadata access. You create a special procedure in the master database, providing a name that starts with the prefix sp_. You don't need to qualify special procedures with the database name when you execute them from a database other than master, and SQL Server resolves references to system objects in the procedures against the database you're executing them from. For example, if you run sp_help in the Northwind database, you get a list of the objects in Northwind.
Sp_help performs a query against sysobjects, which in this case SQL Server resolves against the sysobjects table in the Northwind database. A little-known fact is that you can force SQL Server to resolve system objects against a different database than the one you're connected to by qualifying the special procedure with the database name, even though the procedure doesn't reside in that database. For example, if you run the following code, you get a list of the objects in the Pubs database:
USE Northwind EXEC pubs..sp_help
To demonstrate how user-defined special procedures work, run the following code to create the procedure sp_getusertables, which retrieves the list of user tables:
USE master GO CREATE PROC dbo.sp_getusertables AS SELECT name FROM sysobjects WHERE type = 'u'
You can test this procedure by running the following code, which executes the procedure against Northwind and msdb:
USE Northwind EXEC sp_getusertables EXEC msdb..sp_getusertables
Note that you get different user tables for each database.
SQL Server always resolves special procedures that reference user objects against the master database. For example, first drop any tables called T1 in master, Northwind, and Pubs. Then, run the code that Listing 1 shows to create a table called T1 in the Northwind database and in the Pubs database and a special procedure that returns all rows from T1. Next, run the following code, which executes your procedure first in Northwind, then in Pubs:
EXEC Northwind..sp_getT1rows EXEC pubs..sp_getT1rows
You get error messages stating that the object name T1 is invalid because SQL Server looks for the table only in master, as the following messages show:
Server: Msg 208, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_getT1rows, Line 4 Invalid object name 'T1'. Server: Msg 208, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_getT1rows, Line 4 Invalid object name 'T1'.
Apparently, a back door lets you force SQL Server to resolve user objects the same as it does system objects—namely, in the context of the database you're connected to or the one you specify, if you do so explicitly. You mark the procedure as a system object by using the undocumented stored procedure sp_MS_marksystemobject:
USE master EXEC sp_MS_marksystemobject sp_getT1rows Now run the previous code snippet again: EXEC Northwind..sp_getT1rows EXEC pubs..sp_getT1rows
In the result, which Figure 1 shows, note that SQL Server accessed T1 first in Northwind, then in Pubs.
When you use dynamic execution in your stored procedure, SQL Server resolves user objects in the invoking database the same way it resolves system objects even if you don't mark the stored procedure as a system object. To demonstrate this behavior, run the code that Listing 2 shows to create a stored procedure that accepts a table and column name and returns all values in the given column in that table. When you force the execution of the procedure in Pubs and Northwind, SQL Server resolves the object names within the specified database, and the following code runs successfully:
EXEC pubs..sp_getcolumn @table_name = authors, @col_name = au_id EXEC Northwind..sp_getcolumn @table_name = Orders, @col_name = OrderID
Sp_ Prefix for Other Objects
The unique functionality of special procedures is common knowledge, but it applies to other object types as well. I learned from Kalen Delaney that if you create views and tables in master and prefix their names with sp_, they behave differently than the documented way that views and tables behave. A table prefixed with sp_ behaves similarly to a special procedure in that you can access the table from any database without qualifying it with master.
To demonstrate this concept, run the code that Listing 3 shows. The code creates the sp_digits table in master, then changes the database context to Pubs and issues a few INSERT statements without qualifying the table name. At callout A, the code changes the database context to Northwind, issues a few more INSERT statements, then changes the database context to tempdb and queries the table. You can modify and retrieve data from sp_digits regardless of your database context even if you don't qualify the name with master. The final query in Listing 3 should produce 10 rows, each containing a different digit in the range 0 to 9.
Views in the master database that have the sp_ prefix are also accessible from any database without the master qualifier, but they behave a bit differently from stored procedures. With special views, SQL Server always resolves references to system objects in the context of the master database no matter which database you're querying from. As an example, run the following code to create the sp_vgetusertables view:
USE master GO CREATE VIEW sp_vgetusertables AS SELECT name FROM sysobjects WHERE type = 'u'
Then, query the view from different databases:
USE master SELECT * FROM sp_vgetusertables USE Northwind SELECT * FROM sp_vgetusertables USE pubs SELECT * FROM sp_vgetusertables
Note that you always get the table list from master.
Output Parameters for Sp_executesql
To execute dynamically constructed T-SQL code, you use the EXEC command and the sp_executesql stored procedure. A question concerning dynamic execution that T-SQL programmers frequently post in the public SQL Server newsgroups (such as msnews.microsoft.com) is, How can I run a calculation within the dynamically executed code and return the result to the invoking batch? For example, suppose you want to write a stored procedure that accepts a table name and a column name and returns the number of distinct values in the specified column. You need to use dynamic execution, but SQL Server Books Online (BOL) says that sp_executesql can have only input parameters, not output parameters. However, the text of system stored procedures such as sp_helpmergearticleconflicts, sp_MSenum_replsqlqueues, and sp_MSenum_replqueues in the master database shows that SQL Server product developers use output parameters with sp_executesql.
T-SQL programmers can also use sp_executesql's undocumented output parameters. Run the code that Listing 4 shows to create the sp_distinctcount stored procedure. This stored procedure accepts table and column names and returns the distinct count of values in the column specified in the @cnt output parameter. The stored procedure's code constructs the T-SQL assignment SELECT statement (a SELECT statement that assigns values to variables) in the @sql variable. The query string assigns the query result to the @distinctcount variable, which is defined in the sp_executesql invocation's second argument as an int OUTPUT parameter. SQL Server passes the pointer for the @cnt parameter to the @distinctcount variable in sp_executesql's third argument.
To test the stored procedure, run it first against Pubs, providing the authors table and the au_lname column as arguments:
DECLARE @n AS int EXEC pubs..sp_distinctcount @table_name=authors, @col_name=au_lname, @[email protected] OUTPUT PRINT 'Distinct count of last names of authors is: ' + CAST(@n AS varchar(10))
Note that sp_distinctcount returns the value 22. Next, run it against Northwind, providing the Orders table and the CustomerID column as arguments:
DECLARE @n AS int EXEC Northwind..sp_distinctcount @table_name=Orders, @col_name=CustomerID, @[email protected] OUTPUT PRINT 'Distinct count of customers that made orders is: ' + CAST(@n AS varchar (10))
This time, the procedure returns the value 89, the number of distinct values in the Orders.CustomerID column, showing that SQL Server used a different table in a different database.
T-SQL programmers commonly want to execute dynamic code longer than 4000 characters and to execute code constructed by a query. But sp_executesql limits code to 4000 bytes—the nvarchar data type's limitation. And although running queries against system tables and INFORMATION_SCHEMA views is a convenient way to construct administrative code, you have to run the query and copy the code from the Query Analyzer Results pane to the Execution pane before you execute it.
The undocumented xp_execresultset extended stored procedure provides a way for programmers to satisfy both desires. As an example of executing dynamic code longer than 4000 characters, let's store some long, dynamically constructed code in separate rows of a table. Running the code in Listing 5, page 21, creates the TSQLCommands table and populates it with three rows that together construct a valid statement. Note a couple of important things here. First, you have to design the table where you store the command elements so that you'll be able to sort them correctly. I used the cmdrow column to store a sequence of numbers that determine the position of the command's element within the complete command. Second, you can't break a word in the middle and continue it in the next row. Before executing xp_execresultset, run the following query:
SELECT cmdtext FROM TSQLCommands WHERE cmdid = 1 ORDER BY cmdrow
The result is the valid T-SQL command that Figure 2 shows.
The xp_execresultset procedure accepts two arguments: an nvarchar string containing the query whose results you're executing and an nvarchar string containing the name of the database you're running the code against. To execute the results of the preceding query in Pubs, you would run the following code:
EXEC master..xp_execresultset N'SELECT cmdtext FROM tempdb..TSQLCommands WHERE cmdid = 1 ORDER BY cmdrow', N'pubs'
You get the au_lname and au_fname columns from the authors table, as Figure 3 shows.
As an example of executing query-constructed code, suppose you want to write code that counts the number of rows in all the base tables in your database. First, run the following code to create the #NumRows temporary table:
CREATE TABLE #NumRows(table_name SYSNAME, owner SYSNAME, numrows int)
Then, run the code at callout A in Listing 6 to execute the query that generates the INSERT statements that populate the table. You get the results that Figure 4 shows.
Usually, you'd copy the generated INSERT statements to Query Analyzer's Execution pane and execute them. However, you can use xp_execresultset to run the query, then execute its results as callout B in Listing 6 shows.
Note that because xp_execresultset accepts the query string as a character-based argument, you need to prefix and suffix the string with single quotes and duplicate each quote within the string. To examine the results, query the #NumRows temporary table:
SELECT * FROM #NumRows
In this article, I started exploring T-SQL back doors—undocumented features that T-SQL programmers use—mainly those related to stored procedures. In my next column, I'll discuss back doors related to user-defined functions (UDFs). As you've probably noticed, the back doors that I explored have a lot of useful functionality, but you need to be aware of the risks I mentioned. I hope to see those back doors become supported front doors in a future release of SQL Server.


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Urban explorer Steve Duncan goes underground, examining the hidden infrastructure of major cities all over the world: their tunnels, subways and sewers. Late in 2010, NPR's Jacki Lyden joined Duncan and a group of subterranean adventurers in New York. (This story originally aired on All Things Considered on Jan. 2, 2011.)
If you're just tuning in, it's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Jacki Lyden. Sometimes, you just want to boldly go below, underground, not just in caves or catacombs but beneath the city streets into its subterranean, Batman-like world. In December of 2010, I decided to join some explorers doing just that in New York.
As people walk along the busy streets of New York City, urban explorer Steve Duncan goes below, far below, through the city's tunnels, subways and sewers. It's a deep, dark look at New York's working history many of us will never see. But down there...
LYDEN: ...each expedition comes with its own dangers.
STEVE DUNCAN: I don't want to make it sound too dramatic because it's easy enough to hurt yourself walking across the street in New York. Definitely, there's some different dangers underground. One of the most obvious is the possibility of bad atmosphere, carbon monoxide buildup, hydrogen sulfide, also known as sewer gas. If you have an underground vault and a gas line breaks nearby, that might end up flooding it with flammable gas. Perhaps just a tiny spark from within a headlamp or maybe lighting a cigarette...
DUNCAN: ...can set that off. And that's terrible.
LYDEN: Not to mention the manholes he uses are in the middle of the street.
DUNCAN: Cars can come over those at any point. Subway systems, where you have 750 volts running along a live, exposed line. When you also have puddles, that can be a terrible thing. Exposed metal, random holes. On the subway, when trains are routed in different directions, the tracks switch a little bit, and it's possible to get your foot stuck in those if you're there at the wrong time. These are environments that, like the wildest places on Earth, you know, do have a lot of danger.
LYDEN: Of course, why Steve Duncan explores these spaces is another question entirely. Now, think about it. If you could follow Alice down that rabbit hole or Jules Verne to the center of the Earth, wouldn't you do it? We did. Steve Duncan took us on a weeklong trek through 25 miles of New York underground, each adventure going deeper than the one before.
LYDEN: Our first leg, it's the middle of the night, a freezing, snowy street corner in the Bronx with a tall Norwegian. Nordic explorer Erling Kagge is the reason for this journey. He and Steve met a year ago. Erling is ruggedly handsome in his late 40s. He's climbed the major mountain peaks. He was the first man to walk alone to the North Pole. Now, he wants to explore New York's subconscious.
ERLING KAGGE: And I'm always kind of asking myself, you know, why can't I just remain sitting in this chair instead of going out or going on a new expedition.
LYDEN: So you do ask yourself that.
KAGGE: Yeah, yeah.
LYDEN: And why do you think it is?
KAGGE: But I'm not always waiting for the answer.
LYDEN: Erling does wait, though, for Steve to arrive so that the journey can begin.
DUNCAN: Hello.
LYDEN: Hi.
With his shock of white blond hair, the 32-year-old looks like a human sparkler. Steve brought along a videographer and reporter from The New York Times. We all set off. Our entrance to the sewer is a drainage culvert in the middle of a park somewhere in the Bronx.
DUNCAN: We're going in at a place where what used to be an aboveground river, was channeled into a culvert, and then set into one of the Bronx's older sewers.
LYDEN: But it's been snowing a lot. And when we get there, it looks a little deep.
DUNCAN: What do you think? You want to try it?
LYDEN: What's happening right now is Steve lowered himself over the side, and he's trying to test how deep this water is. Looks pretty dangerous to me, actually. Given the danger, we make the call to stick with Steve's topside crew tonight, a friend named Will Hunt. The plan is for Steve and Erling to wade a mile through the sewer to an exit manhole. They disappear into the tunnel, and then we wait.
WILL HUNT: This is topside. Are you guys OK? Let us know how things are.
LYDEN: That's Will on a walkie-talkie.
LYDEN: We wait for an hour. Nothing from the guys. Two hours.
HUNT: Ray(ph), it's not still going...
LYDEN: Nothing.
HUNT: ...which is making me a little disconcerted about the fact we haven't seen them yet.
LYDEN: They were only walking a mile. By 5 a.m., it's been over three, freezing hours, when finally...
HUNT: Steve, this is Will, over.
LYDEN: ...Will gets through.
DUNCAN: Oh, great. We're here.
HUNT: All right. Come on up.
DUNCAN: Hey.
LYDEN: Out they climb, filthy, tired. What happened down there?
DUNCAN: Terrible things. We can't talk about.
LYDEN: They were snapping photos, coping with leaky waders. And Steve says sometimes, time just moves differently underground. All right, let's come up for a breath. Why are they doing this? Back in 1997, Steve was an engineering undergrad at Columbia University.
DUNCAN: I was woefully unprepared for a final in math class and realized I had to do some of the homework on a computer program that was only available in the math building, and it was late at night. So I asked a friend, who I knew ran around the tunnels at Columbia, if there was any way to get in there. And he said: Sure, I can show you.
So he took me to an entrance to the steam tunnel system and said basically, go that way, make a few turns, you'll be right there. And he took off. I hadn't expected that part. But I went in, and just the whole experience of being alone in the dark, I felt like I was a million miles away from any other human. And, of course, I was only 10 feet away from the busy sidewalks. They were just straight overhead.
LYDEN: And later that morning, it's to Columbia that Steve returns. For this leg, we're going below with him through the doors of a small brick building on campus. We're dirty. We have huge backpacks. It's almost scary how easy this is. Down some stairs past two employees stocking a vending machine, we reached an unmarked door at the bottom. After a long corridor of clanking, boiling steam pipes, we shimmy up a ladder and into a crawl space.
DUNCAN: So right now, we're underneath a building called Buell Hall. It's also the French house. Before this was Columbia University, it was a Bloomingdale Insane Asylum. So you can see the, you know, where we're underneath it, it's these wood rafters supported on newer steel beams.
LYDEN: Steve Duncan says that when he begins these treks, he's often not sure what he's looking for.
DUNCAN: I wish I could tell you that I had everything completely mapped out before I go underground. That's very, very rarely the case.
LYDEN: You got a couple of maps, right (unintelligible) much about.
DUNCAN: I do have a couple maps, yeah. Interestingly, though, New York, pretty much, nobody has a complete map of the underground. It's like massive spaghetti down there sometimes. Sometimes, it isn't quite what I expect.
LYDEN: You can say that again. Our third night out with Steve, we're in a subway station in Lower Manhattan getting to explore what we've been told is an abandoned portion of tracking. Steve is giving us a little safety prep.
DUNCAN: And the big thing here is not to get killed, so don't touch the third rail. And if a train's coming, get out of the way. And that might mean, in the worst situation I can imagine, that might mean standing in between those two third rails and in between two pillars so the trains are coming on each side of you. You won't get killed. You will get seen. But that's much better than dying.
LYDEN: A final train leaves. Steve jumps down, and we follow. We move like a column of special ops in silence, hopping over the deadly third rail with Steve in the lead. The tunnel is dim. Only the lights glow soft and blue.
LYDEN: The train we hear is on another track, but it's still unsettling. As we clamber onto an abandoned platform, Steve freezes.
DUNCAN: I could have sworn I saw a guy over there. Did anybody else see that?
LYDEN: Suddenly, Steve is running, and there's nothing we can do but run after him. We've been spotted, and now, we're hopping back across live tracks. Up on the platform, 30 stunned spectators look on as we hoist ourselves up. Our microphones barely make it, and we dash out of the station.
I want to talk a little bit about two things: mortality and morality. Let's talk about this first. I mean, it is against the law, I presume, to explore these behind barrier spaces. And you're smiling.
DUNCAN: Yeah. Legality and morality, I think, are really different issues. And so I try hard never to do anything that's immoral, that I consider bad. So if we were to switch our mentality and say, well, you can be there as long as it doesn't hurt anybody, I think that would open up a lot of parts of the city that people would love to see.
LYDEN: So how long do you think before your next descent? I mean, you just - because even this was unusual for you. This was like day after day after day. That was kind of the first time you've done something like that, right?
DUNCAN: Yeah, absolutely. Most of the time, it's maybe one trip a week. It's back to grad school after this for me. So hopefully, this will keep me sane for next couple of months of sitting at the library.
LYDEN: Do you want to teach some day?
DUNCAN: What I'd like to do is what Indiana Jones did where he taught half the time and ran off in adventures the other half the time.
LYDEN: That's Steve Duncan. A slide show of photos from our journey is at npr.org/allthingsconsidered.
LYDEN: And for Saturday, that's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Jacki Lyden. Check out our weekly podcast. Search for WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED on iTunes or on the NPR smartphone app. Click on programs and scroll down. We're back on the radio tomorrow. Until then, thanks for listening and have a great night. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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For the grapplers of Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, the ride took longer than the wrestling in last Friday's Inter-Ac League meet at Malvern Prep. A total of 10 matches lasted no longer than it took for an unchallenged athlete to walk to the center of his mat and have his hand raised by the referee, signifying a forfeit at that weight class by the other team.
Each side won one major decision and one regular decision to score seven team points, but the host Friars collected six wins by forfeit and the SCH Blue Devils pocketed only four, so Malvern won out, 43-31. Both teams had defeated Penn Charter and had lost to the other three Inter-Ac schools, so Malvern finished fourth in the league, with a 3-2 record in dual meets, while SCH, at 1-4, came in fifth.
In a non-league contest earlier last week, SCH had pulled out a 39-37 victory over Roman Catholic High School, but it cost the Blue Devils the services of junior captain George Kunkel.
"He was pinning the guy from Roman when he had an injury to his elbow," explained SCH coach Charlie Neely.
That left the Devils with a gap at 145 lbs., and there also was a new vacancy at 126 lbs., where sophomore Evan Wilson was out of commission.
The Malvern meet began with the 145 lb. weight class, and with Kunkel sidelined SCH forfeited to Friars junior Colin Sullivan. Blue Devils senior Matt Klauder recouped four team points at 152 lbs., scoring three takedowns during the course of his 9-1 major decision over sophomore host Rob Gueriera.
Next up for Malvern was junior 160 Greg Bacci, a 2011 bronze medalist at the Pa. Independent School Championships, and here the visitors elected to forfeit, moving Mike Moriarty up to 170. Moriarty is also a junior, but is a first-year wrestler.
"Malvern actually weighed in a guy at 166 lbs. who could have wrestled 170, but they didn't use him," noted SCH's Neeley.
Instead, a Malvern forfeit at that position brought the Blue Devils within two points of the Friars, with the meet score at 12-10. Two talented sophomores converged at 182 lbs., and Malvern's Jake Anderson never trailed after scoring a takedown and three back points in the opening round. Off of a neutral (standing) start in the third period, SCH's Ben Rubin scored a takedown with eight seconds to go, avoiding a major decision but still losing a regular verdict, 8-2.
The Devils pulled back within two points in the team tally (15-13) thanks to Desmond Johnson's 6-1 decision at 195 lbs. Edging ahead 2-1 in the first period, the freshman chalked up a reversal in the second frame and a takedown in the third to defeat Friars junior Alfredo Giannacarri.
Springside Chestnut Hill had to forfeit the next two matches to Malvern junior Harry Mauk (220 lbs.) and freshman Pete Ciesielski (285), but they got back those points and more as the match order swung around to the light end of the scale. Friars forfeits to freshmen Brandon Boyer (106) and Jackson Bistrong (120) and to junior Jordan Wang (113) thrust the visitors ahead on the big board, 31-27.
Just as quickly, the advantage vanished, since SCH had no one to oppose Malvern freshmen Dymond Wright and Charlie Arena, slotted in at 126 and 132 lbs., respectively.
Now down by eight points in the meet (39-31), the Devils could not make up the margin in the one remaining match, the 138 lb. contest. Sophomore Anthony Liddy posted a pair of points on escapes, but four takedowns contributed to a 10-2 major decision for Mike Reagan, the lone senior on the Malvern roster.


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