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Being a former Christian, I have a right to expound on dogma and high ritual in the churches, comparing the old-time religion of the 50s and 60s with today's megachurched world of air conditioned dog houses and preachers with summer homes in California. So let me borrow a snippet of a local TV newscast about some people who are angry that the murderer of a friend is free on bail and awaiting the friend's "justice." They were shown in a Catholic church praying for retribution.
Yep, they were praying to God to destroy the accused. Before a jury hears facts.
If anything sounds wrong with this then perhaps you, like me, have a certain post-enlightenment "nostalgia for religion," to quote the late Pier Paolo Pasolini, famous for his black and white gritty docudrama, The Gospel According to St. Matthew. I don't know about Pasolini, but my own nostalgia for religion finds current Christianity abhorrent and certainly counter to the interpretation of the canonicals I learned in 12 hours of religion in college. Was I wrong to assume that a person who advises turning the other cheek would ask followers to forgive even the homicidal, for theirs, too, is the Kingdom of Heaven. But here are these people praying to the same God to smite a person out of good old-fashioned revenge. Their participation in such an obscenity inside a church is just mind-boggling.
Abraham Maslow wrote that religious people babble rote nonsense when they go to services. Most know nothing about their religion except basics: it's been shown that atheists have more acquaintance with the bible than most Christians. Maslow thought that people go for social, business, and political reasons than because they genuinely believe in something they know little about. How many of them know that Leviticus forbids shellfish? They aren't going to synagogue. For that matter, as George Carlin observed, why honor with worship a God who tells women to cover their head in a cathedral but never cover the head in a synagogue? A God that fickle, that arbitrary, that capricious...isn't worth worshiping. He's worth forgetting.
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Sorry, but I don't share the nostalgia of the 50's and 60's. Pope Pious XII ruled with an iron hand till his death in 1958. The same pontiff who recognized and adhered to the Concordat with the Third Reich. The same pontiff who blessed the Wehrmacht in St. Peter's Square. And his successor? Ohh, the ever so holy and beatified John XXIII, who intentionally covered up pederasty with the threat of excommunication to those that revealed it.
Yes, the grotesque mega churches of today with their rock concert themes of worship and grovelling are a thoroughly disgusting exhibition of modern conspicuous consumption in the name of the mystical inbred zombie. In the 50's and 60's it was grand opera in the classical style. The congregation intoning in unison, the air filled with frankincense, and the spectacle of gold embroidered silk robes, all to the sounds of Gregorian chant filling the vestibule and nave. Compared to the hillbilly guitar picking, flag waving spectacle of of a country and western mega-arm waving and tambourine banging fest with starched cargo shorts and Izod shirts for appropriate attire today, I suppose there would be a certain nostalgia for a bygone era of the veneer of class, couth, and culture vs. trailer trash chic.
As to condemning a human without a fair trial, based on a mere allegation, there isn't a spitting difference between the tuxedo of yesteryear, and bib overalls and ragged baseball cap of today. Which poison do you prefer?
Nice point, Michele, thanks. How very true. But if the pastor sent a memo, please dress up for Jesus, they probably would not even go.
Pat, the poetry of your response reminds me of Hart Crane and Ginsberg with rhyme from line to line, and you have caught the irony of it all like no other could.
Michelle, in reading your comment, there is a certain amount of optimism contained in your observation. While it is an old axiom, it is still precise. "Familiarity breeds contempt." The more familiar and commonplace their savior becomes to them, the more mundane he is. And with - dare I say expectation - will become so commonplace and humdrum as to ultimately be meaningless.
As to my prior observation, thank you folks, but it was a combination of a remembrance of my altar boy days memorizing Latin incantations, along with last nights communion involving Bacardi Añejo.
They say very little written with altered consciousness makes it to the final product, but I wonder if that is true of screen writing. The screenplay for Midnight Cowboy was written in a frenzy of amphetamine intoxication, and in reading a book about Hollywood in the 70's, Easy Riders and Raging Bulls, one gathers that almost all superstar directors in that era, the era of Jaws and The Godfather, were experimenters with not only weed but cocaine, amphetamines, and the hallucingenics. (They drove poor Dennis Hopper mad.) Sometimes they had to have been too loaded to ever edit. Robert Towne was turning out 250-pp. (rule: minute a page) s.p.'s probably knowing someone else would be editing anyway. Some ventured too far out, only to have their tether cut. Poor Hal Ashby (Being There) died of too much indulgence. Could his having been born a Mormon have led to the drugs? They had a huge role in the Calvinist-brainwashed Paul Schrader, author of Taxi Driver, one of the best scripts ever. Also written, in all likelihood, on some substance or other.
I last darkened the door of a church, for an infant baptism, a couple of years ago. At that time I wrote this piece about the horrible story the priest told as part of celebrating the sacrament. And though up to that point I could have said that I sometimes still missed aspects of church--mainly the aesthetics at their best--I'm feeling more and more that I am over that, that the nostalgia is gone, and that life without all of that is really now as comfortable as an old shoe.
Of course, so much that is religion-related is imbued in our culture--the music of Bach, say, and the language of the KJV--so it's impossible to avoid. And I wouldn't want to avoid it altogether. There's no reason not to feel uplifted by the Dona Nobis Pacem of Bach's Mass in B Minor, for instance. But I find the effect and impact of these artifacts to be much greater when they are excised from the institutions and people that purport to uphold a certain set of values while in reality, as Pat points out, they violate everything they claim to hold true. It makes sense to sing Dona Nobis Pacem--Give Us Peace--only if we are willing to admit that the onus of making that peace is on us, not on some imagined deity.
So, though I don't feel any sort of hankering for church or god, I remain open to the touch of the arts and language that religions have produced, hoping in my own way to transform them by recognizing them for what they really are: human expression that explores our shared centuries of history. Take god out of the equation, and that's precisely what they are--and that's plenty.
I have you flat out beat for Malaprop at rituals. When my ugly horrid aunt Maxine died, after staring at the open casket for a couple of minutes, wanting to put a mirror under the old toad's nose, the treacly swell nice guy protestant minister told all about Maxine's calling him at 3 a.m. asking him to take down notes on what she wanted at her funeral. I am sure glad the old bitch turned to a preacher, she probably had lost all her friends.
You are dead on about our vibratory harmonic central nervous system; I tried to get into the Bach Passions, but found myself more in tune with Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier and am on a rampage to own every recording made. The soprano trios are spine-tingling, especially in the last act, and the "Italian tenor" (sometimes, "Singer" only) has a solo in the first act that makes me weep each time I hear it. I am certain I am having what many believers (and the rest of us, too) call "the spirit of oneness." All of the big three atheist writers have explanations about our "spiritual" experiences, pointing that far from proving there is a God, they prove by example that such feelings are normal without Him. Like your take on it, though.
I just read that book by Thompson about four months back. It is super. Kind of soothed my nerves because it says, in effect, Lord, forgive these believing fools, they cannot help it if you hardwired them to believe. Amen.
James - we must be related. I believe your aunt Maxine is the twin sister of my - now gratefully departed by everyone who ever met her - aunt Leona. I recall, late one afternoon, being with my brother visiting our mother's grave. When I asked where the old bitch (Leona) was buried, my brother loudly said we didn't have time to find out, as it was nearing sunset and she would be coming out of the ground any minute. The two women tending the grave near us must have heard us, because they got incensed and stormed off. It was obvious they had never met her.
Heh heh heh. Yeah, strangers to the experience of a person like that might think ill of you for being disrespectful of the dead. I say if they were shits, dis 'em. Maxine was an only child for too long, and when Jeanelle, my mom came along, her older sister was jealous of the affection. She also learned to be manipulative. One day in a general store, she saw those big glass jars of candy that they had, and she threw herself onto the proprietor's flooe, thrashing about, moaning and weeping and so forth. When the poor owner asked her what was wrong, she said, "I'm soooo hungry! I'm sooooooo hungry." He gave her a piece of candy.
I miss none of it--period.
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Believe me on this one. I don't just work strange hours, fall off my bicycle, and wait for news on my Unemployment case (there is none yet. I swear I will post to the blog about 5 minutes after I hear anything).
There's a new design a-comin'. A self-published one. With new logo and schematic prepared by Sister Beth Other Weaverknits. It will be available next week.
It's unisex. It was inspired by the Bukowski poem "Bluebird" and intended for my Dud. Hi there, I remember you, Dud! I know I said Christmas, I know!
For a bit more detail, check out Kate's post. She's knitting the sample that will be at the June TNNA, at the Lorna's Laces booth, knit in a yarn that I think is not nearly as well-known as it should be.
Stay tuned!
Monday, June 8, 2009
Proof of Life: I still knit. I totally do.
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You mean the colors I already happened to have in my stash, intended for other projects?
Can't wait to see this sweater of yours...
- June 8, 2009 at 9:14 PM
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I love the photo of your chart and look forward to the big ta dah!
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|2007-05-02, 12:01
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Ah, there is a Claymore thread now, I'm glad. I'm new to the series and I've been checking out the anime. I like it. It has a Beserk feel to it with the medieval European settings, which are very well done. I do feel the animation is a little dated to be such a recent series though. Hopefully that will improve as the series goes on.
Now for the questions :
- How far is the manga ahead the anime?
- Why does it seem that all the Claymore are female? Are males incapable of becoming Claymores?
- Is there anything special about the Claymore swords themselves or are they just normal weapons?
- Do the "Men in Black" serve any purpose besides just collecting money and acting as messengers?
- Teresa freaked out that gang of bandits that wanted to rape her by exposing her chest. Are all the bodies of the Claymore disfigured/scarred as the result of being half-Youma or was this something unique to Teresa?
I suppose those are the major questions I'd like to know right now. I don't mind spoilers.
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I will answer the questions inside the quote ad if it's spoilerish I put it in a second spoiler.
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Speculation & Theories thread.
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Of course Clare had just had a Yoma punch through her stomach in episode 1, so I guess technically it's difficult to say for sure...
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|2007-05-29, 09:43
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How many episodes is the anime scheduled to run?
Anime Source says 26, but it doesn't give a proper source. So is this true? (Episode 8 is in manga scene 24. There are 70+ scenes to date, with the end of the story nowhere in sight. So, unless the anime comes to a very abrupt end, a total of 26 episodes just don't seem right.)
|2007-05-29, 17:45
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There is no official answer to the number of episodes. However, if the show runs much over 26 episodes then the anime will have to make up its own ending, so 26 episodes is likely.
Please remember that Claymore manga chapters are only released once a month, not once a week like Bleach and Naruto. That means the filler would last 4 years if they don't stop around episode 26 or so.
|2007-05-29, 17:48
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There's one more indicator. 9 DVDs are listed, the first one with 2 eps, the next ones with 3 eps each. Makes 26 total.
The mangaka also indicated that he'd go for ~25 volumes manga total. Which would fit exactly with one more double season.
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That's not a question that can be answered with facts presented in the anime or manga. That means this is not the right place to discuss it. I suppose you can ask that in The biology of Claymores.
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Yes, there's yet another Claymore with pointy-ears.
Also, gray is the new black.
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One item read that Samsung had sent to all employees photographs of the son of the firm's chairman with instructions for hanging the photo next to one of his father -- an allusion to North Korea's Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.As satire goes, it seems pretty tame (and, really, not that funny). But, Samsung went ballistic, suing Breen, the Korea Times and its top editor for both civil and criminal libel charges. Supposedly, after Korea Times ran a "clarification" that was written by Samsung itself, the paper and its editor were dropped from the lawsuit, but the suit against Breen remains. And, since there are criminal charges, not only could he face hefty fines (perhaps $1 million), he might also face jailtime. For writing a satirical Christmas day column. Tough audience.
Breen also wrote that Samsung, "the rock upon which the Korean economy rests, sent traditional year-end cards offering best wishes for 2010 to the country's politicians, prosecutors and journalists along with [$50,000] gift certificates."
Apparently, Korean defamation laws aren't just draconian, but they're also downright ridiculous. Truth? Not a defense. Satire? Not a defense. Basically, if anything you say harms someone's reputation, you've defamed them. Even if it's true or you're just making a joke. As the LA Times notes, Samsung says it needs to do this to protect its reputation worldwide:
Since 80% of its revenues are from overseas, the firm is sensitive to any "minor accident or mistake" that could adversely affect its international reputation, the suit said.Uh, perhaps there's just a cultural mistranslation, but the stories about Samsung's corruption and bribery scandals are pretty widely known. Nothing in that column was going to change that. And, I would argue that, outside of South Korea, filing this ridiculous, petty and vindictive lawsuit over a joke is much more likely to harm Samsung's reputation than the original column (which was probably barely read outside of South Korea). And, doesn't something seem completely wrong when Samsung seems more concerned that its reputation will be harmed more by satire about its well-known and well-documented bribery and corruption scandals than the actual bribery and corruption scandals. If the problem is Samsung's "reputation" on the line, then perhaps the company should have thought of that before getting involved in massive bribery and corruption efforts...
The article also notes how this is basically a sign of how dominant Samsung is in South Korea, and how it more or less has power over the newspapers, suggesting that no one is ever willing to criticize them -- and that it's really using this lawsuit as a warning shot. If true, that's a huge shame for South Korea. If a company is bullying people for just making jokes, just imagine what sort of shenanigans it goes through for people who are actually uncovering serious misdeeds at the company.


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Even when I am living on the streets, I will be far from homeless.
As several people have pointed out in the past week — some more subtly than others — I'm just some privileged white kid who thinks he can urban-camp for a week and understand what it's like to be homeless. Point taken.
There is a lot more to being homeless than not having a bed to call your own, and I realize that. The things I'll be experiencing during my homeless week are only the basic, physical privations.
I met a woman named Dawn last weekend in Finlay Park. She'd been out on the streets for a month, and she was getting around on crutches with a sprained foot. She had experienced the cruelty of strangers and the cold of our city in the dead of winter. But in the midst of all those things, here's what she said was the worst part:
I have no children, so I won't experience the anguish of being unable to provide for them. In a way, I'm being spared the worst.
Another important shortcoming of my homeless week: I'm planning this out. I'll have some warm clothes, a rough itinerary for each day, and a definite ending date. This is not how homelessness works. Here's how Mike, whom I also met in Finlay Park that day, explained his homeless experience:
"Homelessness is just something that happens to you. It's not something you plan on. Five years ago, being homeless was the last thing I thought I was gonna be. I had a good family, my wife worked for a senator, and you know, I have a problem with alcoholism, and it just led from one thing to another and it kept getting worse and worse, and then the next thing I knew it was I didn't have anywhere to go, so I had to try to find places to sleep."
A far cry from my situation, to be sure. I've met recovering drug addicts who can't even piece together a narrative of how they got where they are. The sheer uncertainty of circumstances can take a toll on people's minds. To know neither where you are going nor where you have been is a deeply troubling thing.
What's more, I* have no handicaps. I was reminded of this today by a homeless man named Albert. Albert is an older black man with a ready smile and a penchant for talking about God, and he has no legs. He told me he lost them in an accident involving a bulldozer.
I was driving up Gregg Street when Albert approached me in a manual wheelchair. He was having trouble getting up the hill, and he said he would appreciate a lift.
I asked him if he'd like me to push him or help him into the passenger seat, but he shook his head and said, "Just roll down one of your windows for me."
He gripped the back edge of a window frame as I slowly ski-lifted him all the way up the hill, and then he thanked me and rolled on.
I am not mentally disabled. I am not heartbroken. I am not an Army veteran with PTSD. But these are key elements of so many homeless stories I have heard already.
That's the thing: I'm not just heading out on the streets to tell my story. I'm doing this to hear others' stories.
As far as the personal experience, my expectations go about as far as this description, given to me by a man named John whom I met on the steps behind Richland County Public Library:
"When you're on the streets, this is your pillow," John said as he set his backpack down.
"This is your blanket," he said, patting his camouflage fatigue jacket.
"And this is your bed," he said, lowering himself onto the concrete, staring straight at me.
* I should here note that "I" has become "we." My roommate Matt will be accompanying me on the streets for reasons of safety and perspective. So all you moms out there can breathe a little easier.


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This here song is lovely. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB3ChoC95Ok
Any decent entry points for their discography?
Lets just have a discussion about them.
Hard to say.
I love them, yet they're the sort of band who could easily play an entire set of songs I don't like.
The song you've started off with here is a Tanya Donelly one. You only tend to get two or three of those to an album and they're generally a big lighter than the Kristin Hersh compositions. However, the album it's from - The Real Ramona - is a bit poppier than most and, IMO, probably the most consistent even if it doesn't have any one track of the calibre of Hate My Way or Bea.
The first self-titled album is patchy but when it's good it's amazing. The Chains Changed EP doesn't have a duff track on it. I'm not keen on House Tornado but I see that the current CD/mp3 version has the pretty excellent Fat Skier mini-album included so worth a shot. Hunkpapa is a bit spikier so will depend how you get on with the others.
After Real Ramona, Tanya left the band which obviously changes the dynamic a bit. Red Heaven is pretty solid, especially if you get the version with the live disc included. After that, there are one or two good tracks but nothing I've revisited much.
So, yeah. Get Real Ramona first: if it turns out you only really like the Donelly songs you can always try the first Belly album next.shimmetry, CharlieClown, funkycow, and MrScagdenSir this'd this
The untitled debut album is amazing!
One of my favourite records of all time, a big fat 10/10 from me. But it's pretty different from the poppy later stuff. I suppose a slightly reductive way to describe it is as the Muses' Holy Bible or Pornography or whatever, it's very hard and bleak.
But yeah, Ramona is definitely the place to start if you want to ease in with the poppier stuff, I probably would dive in with Untitled (available with Chains Changed as In A Doghouse) second, because it really is an incredible record. Then get the records in between.
They were never really quite the same after Tanya left/Kristin sorted herself out, but University is good and I'd really recommend 50 Foot Wave, plus yeah, if you like Tanya's stuff both Belly albums are great.CharlieClown this'd this
I like Throwing Muses but absolutely love Belly.
Try King and Star; they're Belly albums. King is the more pop-ier of the two.badgercorn this'd this
Yeah I've heard good things about Belly
I'll check 'em out
Big fan of University, Limbo & Real Ramona
The Anthology that came out last year is a good buy as well. Packed full of stuff.H-Stein this'd this
Still one of my favourite bands
If you are looking for a relatively easy entry point then The Real Ramona is the obvious choice as others have said, followed by University.
Although The Real Ramona is my favourite Muses album, mainly because of Kristin and Tanya's songwriting, I prefer the spikier style of the s/t debut and House Tornado, in particular. Both were produced by Gil Norton (Pixies producer, which is a clue) and Leslie Langston was still with the band then - great bassist. I picked up House Tornado straight after The Real Ramona and hated it at first but grew to love it. Hunkpapa is the lesser album of this period - slightly folky and the songs seem more sketch-like.
After Tanya left the Muses became a 2-piece, stripped the sound down, went a bit grungey on Red Heaven (not a fave) but then kind of married the style of both Red Heaven and The Real Ramona on University.
I've hardly touched any Muses album after that though.
3 piece surely ? Kristen / Bernard / Dave since the early nineties.
God I hate pedants : )
I forgot Bernard!
I was a big Leslie Langston fan, hence in denial about other Muses bassists!
Who was that Fred guy, as well?
Kristin Hersh's book is fascinating
The way she describes being forced to write songs so they stopped being inside her head is extraordinary. Certainly throws light on songs which may at first seem impenetrable.
sure this has been done before here
but i'd go along with almost everything the cosh said (i like hoouse tornado)
Anthology Disc 2
The Throwing Muses compilation Anthology that came out about a year and half ago is worth it for the remarkable b-sides collection on the second disc alone, genuinely including some of their best songs (Red Eyes, Cottonmouth, Handsome Woman).
Some great b-sides
Obviously Cottonmouth, but also Same Sun and Amazing Grace all on the flip of Counting Backwards. Chains Changed EP Is great too. Plus Jak. Jak is ace.
I love limbo, think it isn't rated that highly generally which i've never understood. it has my favourite bass playing of any album, something I rarely notice
Limbo is indeed
brilliant, never understood why it got such mediocre to bad reviews at the time.
I'm partial to their song "Fish"
from the Lonely is an Eyesore compilation. That's what got me started on them :)
Untitled debut
is one of my all time favouriite albums, i think its incredible and sounds like nothing else, still. but really am a huge fan so haven't much bad to say. Love Kristin's solo work too, Sunny Border Blue, Hips And Makers are two especially brilliant ones. Lovely to see some people who like them here, i don't know anyone who knows/likes them.lukowski this'd this


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What was once believed unthinkable is now a possibility. Could 2013 be the year that the iconic Proposition 13 is revised? For 34 years, serious discussion by elected officials about Proposition 13 revision has been almost nonexistent.
A Field Poll last September revealed voters continue to support Proposition 13 by a margin of 63 percent to 29 percent. But there are three parts to it and the staunch "support" is only for one of the three.
The portion that most people associate with Proposition 13 is the one limiting annual increases in property taxes.
In 1978, when voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 13, property taxes were exploding. For those on fixed incomes, each reassessment stoked fear of being driven out of their homes. Those who benefit from this aspect of Proposition 13 today are not the majority of Californians. But Proposition 13 did more than place a cap on property taxes.
It also established a two-thirds requirement for the Legislature to increase taxes, and it allowed commercial buildings and landowners to take advantage of a loophole that allows their property taxes to be reassessed only when a new owner acquires more than a 50 percent stake.
This loophole has left schools and local governments struggling to pay for basic needs. Some estimates offer that closing the loophole would generate more than $9 billion for local governments statewide.
Last week, Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, said he plans to introduce legislation that would remove loopholes for commercial property that corporations have enjoyed for more than three decades.
"Prop. 13 is not the untouchable third-rail anymore," Ammiano said in a statement. "It's more like the bad guy with the mustache who has tied California to the rails with the fiscal train wreck coming."
Moreover, state Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, has also proposed changing Proposition 13. He introduced a constitutional amendment that would allow local parcel taxes for schools to pass with 55 percent of the vote, instead of the two-thirds currently required.
The obvious concern would be that changes to the commercial property loophole would further drive business out of California.
But the threat of a mass business exodus will certainly be the argument made by corporations that will undoubtedly spends tens of millions in a public-relations campaign.
Is it possible to close corporate loopholes without forcing individuals on fixed incomes to move? Should Proposition 13 remain in its present form, starving the state's physical and social infrastructure? Can these questions be answered without the emotion that does not allow them to be heard in the proper context?
It does feel that we've reached the point where elected officials can have a judicious conversation about changes to Proposition 13 without committing political hara-kiri.
Whenever I've written in the past about Proposition 13, I have been bombarded by email, especially from seniors who state (rightly so) that Proposition 13 kept them in their homes.
But the reasons voters passed Proposition 13 in 1978 are not the reasons to close corporate loopholes today.
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
Showdown over a Texas execution
The state plans to execute a Mexican national on Aug. 5, despite objections of the World Court.The state plans to execute a Mexican national on Aug. 5, despite objections of the World Court.
The United States is fast approaching a showdown over its commitment to the rule of international law as Texas prepares to carry out the scheduled Aug. 5 execution of convicted killer and rapist Jose Medellin.
On July 14, the International Court of Justice at The Hague ordered the US government to "take all measures necessary" to prevent the execution of Mr. Medellin and four other Mexican nationals awaiting execution dates on death row in Texas.
But Medellin is in the custody of Texas authorities, not the federal government, and the Texas governor says he intends to push forward with the execution next Tuesday.
July 31, 2008 in Capital Punishment | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Stalked: A Decade on the Run
THE woman in the blue suit striding briskly into the Sofitel Hotel near O'Hare airport looked like any other 50-something businesswoman on her way to a meeting. And in a way she was, a marketing consultant and freelance writer visiting from her hometown several hundred miles away.
But the woman flew to Chicago last Friday on a strangely secret errand: a newspaper interview that she gave under an assumed name. Afterward, she checked into a hotel downtown under a different fake identity.
July 31, 2008 in Criminal Law | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Legwork, lab work the real stars of 'CSI: Dallas'Legwork, lab work the real stars of 'CSI: Dallas'
For years, police detectives around the country have mocked the miraculous way investigators on hit TV shows such as CSI: Miami ply their trade: Computers instantly identify matching fingerprints, labs return DNA samples in an hour and the crime unit supervisor, Horatio Caine, draws his gun as often as he flashes his badge.
July 31, 2008 in Evidence | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Judge Holds that White House Aids Subject to Subpoena
President Bush's top advisers are not immune from congressional subpoenas, a federal judge ruled Thursday in an unprecedented dispute between the two political branches.
House Democrats called the ruling a ringing endorsement of the principle that nobody is above the law. They swiftly announced that the Bush officials who have defied their subpoenas, including Bush's former top adviser Karl Rove, must appear as part of a probe of whether the White House directed the firings of nine federal prosecutors. Democrats announced plans to open hearings at the height of election season.
The Bush administration was expected to appeal.
July 31, 2008 in Criminal Law, Political News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Michigan will join states that use GPS to track domestic abusers, stalkers
Mary Babb was in her SUV last year when her estranged husband slammed into her with his pickup truck. The crash overturned Babb's vehicle and left her suspended upside-down by her seat belt.
As she hung there helplessly, Thomas Babb fired two rounds from a shotgun, killing his wife in front of horrified witnesses outside the office where she worked.
Now Mary Babb's family has lobbied successfully for Michigan to join a growing number of states that have expanded electronic monitoring to include domestic abusers and stalkers.
July 30, 2008 in Technology | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Feinstein still questions U.S. attorney's staff moves
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has been exchanging letters with a top Justice Department official over the unit's disbanding, and the subject came up during a congressional oversight hearing late last month.
In March, Los Angeles U.S. Atty. Thomas P. O'Brien announced during a closed-door meeting that he was eliminating the Public Corruption and Environmental Crimes section and transferring its 17 lawyers to other units throughout the office.
July 30, 2008 in Criminal Law | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The cost of new housing for San Quentin State Prison's growing number of Death Row inmates will exceed estimates by nearly $40 million, and the compound could run out of space soon after it is completed, according to a state auditor's report released Tuesday.
The auditor's new $395.5 million price tag for the project, which is expected to be completed by 2011, is new bad news for a state facing billions of dollars in budget shortfalls. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democrat-controlled Legislature are still trying to hammer out a spending plan for the fiscal year that began nearly a month ago.
July 30, 2008 in Capital Punishment | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Questions about Best Approach to Fixing Pervasive Internet Security Flaw
Since a secret emergency meeting of computer security experts at Microsoft's headquarters in March, Dan Kaminsky has been urging companies around the world to fix a potentially dangerous flaw in the basic plumbing of the Internet.
While Internet service providers are racing to fix the problem, which makes it possible for criminals to divert users to fake Web sites where personal and financial information can be stolen, Mr. Kaminsky worries that they have not moved quickly enough.
By his estimate, roughly 41 percent of the Internet is still vulnerable. Now Mr. Kaminsky, a technical consultant who first discovered the problem, has been ramping up the pressure on companies and organizations to make the necessary software changes before criminal hackers take advantage of the flaw.
Next week, he will take another step by publicly laying out the details of the flaw at a security conference in Las Vegas. That should force computer network administrators to fix millions of affected systems.
But his explanation of the flaw will also make it easier for criminals to exploit it, and steal passwords and other personal information.
July 30, 2008 in Criminal Law, Technology | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
U.S. Supports Rehearing in Kennedy Death Penalty Ruling
The US Justice Department has appealed to nation's highest court to re-hear a major death penalty case involving sentencing for child rapists, saying the ruling was made without all the facts.
The Supreme Court last month ruled 5-4 against the death sentence for child rapists, but did so without considering a 2007 executive order that makes child rape a crime punishable by death according to military law, the Justice Department said in a rare motion filed this week.
July 30, 2008 in Capital Punishment, Criminal Law, DOJ News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Beheading as a More Humane Form of Execution?
BBC News: Three Indonesian militants facing execution for the 2002 Bali bombings want to be beheaded rather than killed by firing squad, their lawyer has said.
The three - Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra - are expected to include the request in an appeal to the Supreme Court.
Their lawyer, Muhammad Mahendradatta, said beheading was a more humane form of punishment than firing squad.
Their execution was postponed last month to allow for a final appeal.
July 30, 2008 in Capital Punishment, Criminal Law, International | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Execution by Military Is Approved by President
WASHINGTON — President Bush on Monday approved the first execution by the military since 1961, upholding the death penalty of an Army private convicted of a series of rapes and murders more than two decades ago.
As commander in chief, the president has the final authority to approve capital punishment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and he did so on Monday morning in the case of Pvt. Ronald A. Gray, convicted by court-martial for two killings and an attempted murder at Fort Bragg, N.C., the White House said in a statement.
Although the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the death penalty in the military in 1996, no one has been executed since President Ronald Reagan reinstated capital punishment in 1984 for military crimes.
July 29, 2008 in Capital Punishment | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Report Faults Aides in Hiring at Justice Dept.
Senior aides to former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales broke Civil Service laws by using politics to guide their hiring decisions, picking less-qualified applicants for important nonpolitical positions, slowing the hiring process at critical times and damaging the department's credibility, an internal report concluded on Monday.
A longtime prosecutor who drew rave reviews from his supervisors was passed over for an important counterterrorism slot because his wife was active in Democratic politics, and a much-less-experienced lawyer with Republican leanings got the job, the report said.
Another prosecutor was rejected for a job in part because she was thought to be a lesbian. And a Republican lawyer received high marks at his job interview because he was found to be sufficiently conservative on the core issues of "god, guns + gays."
July 29, 2008 in DOJ News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Lawmaker wants to strip governor's pardon power
PASCAGOULA --Brandon Jones was 12 when Adrienne Klasky Graham's ex-husband gunned her down at a busy intersection in Pascagoula, but he remembers it and the effect it had on his community.
His sister went to school with one of Adrienne's young sons. People he knew talked about it.
"All of us living in Pascagoula in 1989 remember that day," said Jones, now a young attorney representing Pascagoula in the Legislature. "And to know that someone can shoot someone in the plain light of day and walk free less than 20 years later. The governor's action has broken open a lot of old wounds and it offends the community's sense of justice and safety."
July 29, 2008 in Criminal Justice Policy | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
California to Begin Integrating Prisons for Men
LANCASTER, Calif. -- Male prisoners in the nation's largest corrections system, long kept segregated by race in an effort to temper violence, will soon be sharing cells with inmates of other ethnicities.
A program aimed at integrating California's prisons for men will begin in coming weeks at two facilities and will be extended to the state's 28 other penitentiaries over the next year or so, officials said.
July 29, 2008 in Race | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, July 28, 2008
President Bush Authorizes First Military Execution Since 1961
President Bush on Monday approved the first execution by the military since 1961, upholding the death penalty of an Army private convicted of a series of rapes and murders more than two decades ago.
As commander in chief, the president has the final authority to approve capital punishment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and he did so on Monday morning in the case of Pvt. Ronald A. Gray, convicted by court-martial for two killings and an attempted murder at Fort Bragg, N.C., the White House said in a statement.
Although the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the death penalty in the military in 1996, no one has been executed since President Ronald Reagan reinstated capital punishment in 1984 for military crimes.
July 28, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Conflicting marijuana laws take stage in trial
A highly anticipated trial involving conflicting marijuana laws got underway Friday in Los Angeles federal court with a prosecutor painting the owner of a Morro Bay medicinal marijuana store as a brazen drug trafficker who sold dope to teenagers and toted around a backpack stuffed with cash.
Defense attorneys struggled to provide context for their client's alleged crimes after being barred by the judge from mentioning the phrase "medical marijuana."
July 28, 2008 in Drugs | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Shocking twist to murder, rape
Hamilton County law enforcement officials knew that David Steffen killed 19-year-old Karen Range in 1982 but he insisted for 26 years he never raped the teen.
Prosecutors won murder and rape convictions against Steffen to send him to death row – the first Hamilton County inmate to receive a death sentence after it was reinstated in Oh File photos from 1983 Now, authorities have the man they believe responsible for the sexual attack.
A grand jury indicated a former Hamilton County Coroner Office's employee Monday for having sex with the teen's body in the morgue.
Kenneth Douglas, 55, of Westwood, was arrested Friday for violating his probation for drug trafficking and his DNA matched the DNA in the girl's body.
July 28, 2008 in Sex | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Study sees racial bias in traffic-stop searches
Civil rights groups called Thursday for ending the state police practice of searching vehicles during routine traffic stops, citing new statistics that show black and Hispanic motorists are searched more often even though drugs or other illegal items turn up more frequently among white drivers.
In a letter to Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the groups said the state-funded research shows that minorities are unfairly singled out by police departments around the state. They called on him to order the Illinois State Police to end "consent searches," in which drivers agree to open their cars for inspection.
"Now we have the proof in the pudding and that is that not only are [these searches] occurring with greater frequency among minority drivers, but that they are occurring with dramatically less effectiveness," said Harvey Grossman, legal director for the ACLU of Illinois.
July 27, 2008 in Race | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Bilbray: Suspect's release in Mexico 'a huge blunder'
Rep. Brian Bilbray, who represents an area of San Diego near the border of Mexico, said this week that he will continue to press the Justice Department for answers it has refused to provide him about the apparent failure to seek timely extradition of Jesus Navarro Montes last month.
July 27, 2008 in Homeland Security | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
No one was required to tell McDaniel that the 43-year-old sex offender was a resident of the nursing home where his daughter was admitted in 2005 because she is mentally retarded and has schizophrenia. The resident who attacked her pleaded guilty and is serving three years in prison.
July 27, 2008 in Sex | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)


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James Vanderboom's life drastically changes when he plants a special seed in the garden of the house he has inherited. Expand your bloodline by unlocking portraits in the tree of life.
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Quern is a first person puzzle adventure with captivating story and beautiful graphics. Quern refreshes the genre with flexible gameplay and reuseable puzzle mechanics. The visuals and the music combine traditional and modern elements providing a unique mood for the game.
One of the specialities of Quern is that the tasks to be solved are not managed as separate, individual and sequential units, but as a complex entity, amongst which the players may wander and experiment freely. Often a bad or seemingly irrational result may bring the player closer to the final solution, if those are reconsidered and thought over again later, in the possession of the knowledge gained during the game.
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2D platform game with classic platform gameplay, deadly traps, dark storyline and unique hero abilities, all in Tim Burton's-like audio-visual.
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Eggerland for Windows 95
Eggerland entry for PC. Later releases were titled "Revival! Eggerland"
Rusty Lake Hotel
Welcome our guests to the Rusty Lake Hotel and make sure they will have a pleasant stay. There will be 5 dinners this week. Make sure every dinner is worth dying for.
Rusty Lake Hotel is a mysterious point and click game developed by the creators of the intriguing Cube Escape series.
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Minimalist tile flipping puzzle game for fans of brain teasers.
Rusty Lake Paradise
"Rusty Lake Paradise is set on a small remote island in the 18th Century. After your mother passed away the island seems to be cursed with the 10 plagues. It's your job to go around the island, interact with your family and help them vanquish the plague. The game offers ominous situations and bizarre rituals. Paradise builds upon the distinctive atmosphere and excitement from the Rusty Lake series. For the background graphics we collaborated with a well-known Dutch artist, Johan Scherft."
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Whirly Word HD
Whirly Word® is one of the most popular word games today … 2.5 million customers can't be wrong!
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The large buttons and sensible design allow you to get lost in puzzles for hours. Or take a quick break from your daily routine to play for just a few minutes. This game is smart and remembers right where you left off.
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Manipulate fantastical machinery and solve the many mysterious optical illusions that lie in wait. Use all your ability to survive hazardous levels and fight epic boss battles. Guide your mechanical friend from an oppressive workplace and lead them to freedom.
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A challenging puzzle platformer inspired by games like Limbo and Badland.
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Donut County
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Olivier Giroud suffers ankle injury
LIVERPOOL -- Olivier Giroud is a doubt for Arsenal's Champions League qualifier against Besiktas after injuring his ankle in the 2-2 draw against Everton.
The Frenchman came off the bench to complete his side's comeback from 2-0 down at Goodison Park but limped off after levelling.
- Martinez: Everton were phenonenal vs. Arsenal
And manager Arsene Wenger said he is worried that the striker could miss the tie, which is level at 0-0 after the first leg, against the Turkish team at the Emirates Stadium on Wednesday.
"It is a big game and I hope we have not lost Giroud in the last minute of the game," he told Sky Sports. "It doesn't look too good. In the final minute, he stretched his ankle."
Wenger praised the target man for his contribution and said that Alexis Sanchez, who started as his main striker, both yet to reach full fitness and short of confidence at the moment.
The Chilean, who cost 35 million pounds from Barcelona, is yet to score in four appearances for Arsenal and was replaced by Giroud at halftime.
Wenger added in his news conference: "At the moment he is not completely ready physically. He knows he is not at his best physically but when he is, his confidence will come back."
He explained Giroud's original omission by saying: "I have more strikers than before so sometimes I can give them a little rest. Giroud has just played one game since the World Cup."
And Wenger felt his team were rather better after the France international came on, explaining: "I knew we were dominating the game in the second half and we needed some physical presence. We looked much more dangerous. We were not in a counter-attacking situation, we were in a dominating position."
The Arsenal manager praised his side for their show of character in coming back after Seamus Coleman and Steven Naismith scored for Everton.
He said: "We gave a great response with a complete desire to come back and the spirit was fantastic. In the end we got back to 2-2 and got a strong point but a deserved one, if you look at all the chances we had during the game. In the second half we had plenty of chances but the spirit got us that point."
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Every company should have a plan on how to establish themselves professionally on social media, taking into account various parameters such as volume of publication, SEO and organization. This article will give you support to make it more easily. [note Martin Gysler]
Unless you've been living under a rock, you will have heard about the Google Panda update and what it did to many low-quality websites last year. It was more like a Google sniper attack on all the spam and rubbish sites. Honestly, this does not seem to be the end of the Panda: there is more to come, and we need to watch out.
The whole reason Google made these changes was to give Google users a good experience when they use Google search, and why not? When I look for something on Google the last thing I would want to see is rubbish information.
That is why, as SEO marketers, we need to take a different approach to ranking on Google and driving free organic traffic to our sites. If you have done any kind of SEO, you know what the key principles of ranking on Google are.choosing the right keywords building a well optimized site with good content building quality backlinks.
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Harry Potter Producer David Heyman told us at the DVD launch that singer/songwriter Jarvis Cocker (seen at left) will not only be creating some music for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – he will be appearing at the Yule Ball as a member of the popular wizarding group, The Weird Sisters.
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David Beckham wants Rio Ferdinand and Frank Lampard to be the first major recruits for his Miami MLS side, reports the Daily Mail.
The former Manchester United player is reportedly close to completing a deal to create a new MLS side and has chosen the Florida city as the location.
The BBC reports that Beckham bought the franchise off MLS for £15.6m and completes a clause inserted in to his contract when he first joined LA Galaxy in 2007.
He is now looking to seal some major transfers for the new team and Lampard and Ferdinand are top of Beckham's list.
Ferdinand, 34, is in the last year of his contract at Old Trafford and is yet to be offered the chance to stay at Old Trafford by David Moyes.
As the former England star struggles for fitness, it is not yet known whether Moyes has the intention of offering him a new deal.
But Manchester United's veteran defender could benefit from the move as he looks to develop his media and leisure businesses.
Lampard was reportedly offered the chance to cross the atlantic last season with LA Galaxy ready to match his Chelsea wages.
Chelsea only offered their all-time top scorer a new one year deal late on in the season as his impressive goal scoring form continued to keep a stuttering Blues side afloat.
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Tech Arts 3D are reporting their new penis controller system, the "USB OnaCon," has been completed and will soon be available to ero-gamers.
The device is intended to be open and able to function with any game supporting the technology (Tech Arts 3D have several underway), and should be relatively inexpensive at around ¥2,000.
Player 1
The video explains that there is a handy "ejaculate" button on the device to help ensure the game understands the user's current status.
The rubber part is intended to be removable for cleaning.
Sadly for non-Yamato, the device's usable length is a feeble 14cm (5.5 freedom inches), hardly sufficient for the mighty American phallus. Deep market penetration can only be expected amongst the lonely males of Japan, it seems.
Release is expected in the spring of 2011, with additional "secret features" to be revealed before then.


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Which is king on Nikon DX 16mm fisheye / 16-35mm / 8-16mm Sigma
Posted 10 November 2012 - 12:28 PM
So with all lenses set at 16mm which would perform the best at say f/8 with correctly positioned and set strobes etc
Posted 11 November 2012 - 03:59 PM
What are you wanting to photograph? How important is sharpness in the corners? Why not a Sigma 15mm, which may be better than the lenses that you mention?
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 05:09 PM
I currently use an 18-70mm with +4 which does a pretty good job, far better than my 10-17mm at the 17mm end but I still think it could be a touch better.
Subject being babies, of the human variety in the pool. I'll post a couple of examples tomorrow.
Posted 11 November 2012 - 09:00 PM
Tokina 10-17mm @ 17mm
Nikon 18-70mm @18mm
To me the 18-70mm wins in this scenario, but I still think we can do better.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 03:37 AM
Please excuse the subject matter and the slight difference in camera to subject position... for the purposes of this little side by side test I think the 2-3" distance variation is of little importance. To be honest I was expecting the Nikon prime to be a little shaper but not by this much! I shot a few frames with each lens to be sure that the results were consistent and they are.
Anyway, with the help of Peppa Pig and my favourite mug here we are:
Tokina 10-17mm original shot SOOC just resized for the web.
Nikon 16mm original shot SOOC just resized for the web.
And what actually shows the detail some 100% crops:
Tokina 100% crop
Nikon 100% crop
Now these are static camera and subject shots with flash so no motion involved to account for any blur.
Not at all scientific but it's definitely made up my mind for this week's shoot.
Remember these are straight out of camera with no sharpening or anything. I should probably have used a different subject I know... a sponged print mug doesn't have very defined edges to the printing but hey, I think it shows the difference ok, especially all the little bubbles on the surfaces.
Now can I be bothered to do the same with the Nikon 18-70mm which involves striping down the port? ...Maybe later.
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CONGRATULATIONS!! Featured on Women Painters. Fabulous artwork. Love the colours and composition !!
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Hi Natalie ... this horse is really great! Love the colors and the eye and mane! Great job!
Has a very nice feel to it.. well done. And thanks for all the kind words on my work.. but I wanted to tell you that "Amethyst" is actually an amaryllis.. which are related to lilies but not.. you may find that color in them - I did..
Horses are lovely, aren't they? This one appears to have the love of everyone and is sitting amongst the angels - and again, your flowers are B-E-A-utiful!
Super horse and enhanced by the floral wreath! Fabulous painting! Love it!
I just love the way you paint! This is great but made special by the flowers that are wonderfully painted - and makes me smile :) Did you see the big ghostly wolfs head above the 1rst bird and on top mountsin in middle? And the couple kissing on top of the mountain on far right? :)
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Newhart, 84, won the best guest actor in a comedy series award for his stint in sitcom "The Big Bang Theory". He collected his statuette to a standing ovation at the Creative Arts portion of the Emmys Sep 15, but the audience stood up for him again here Sunday when he came to present the outstanding writing for a variety series award.
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In the past, Newhart was nominated seven times for the Emmys and this is his first win.
He came to prominence in the 1960s when his album of comedic monologues "The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart" became a worldwide bestseller. He then appeared in situation comedies like "The Bob Newhart Show" and "Newhart".
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|2006-01-26, 10:19
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Gomen asobase desuwa!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Age: 38
Higurashi - Game Qs & Discussion (no-spoilers version)
For those of you dying to know stuff about Higurashi, but were afraid to post in the other section full of spoilers, use this thread.
You may utilize this thread to ask questions such as:
What is a doujin game anyway?
What is that 2D fighting game we see images about?
Does Higurashi have "hentai" (blatantly wrong usage of the word, but leave that aside) in it?
Is there an English port? Is a translation available
And other questions along these lines.
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|2006-05-14, 21:31
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Canada
Age: 33
As for Keiichi's knowledge about the dam project, what do you think? Do you remember how Keiichi found out about it in Onikakushi-hen? Remember, the same information can mean totally different things, depending on the situation you are in when you find out about it.
Hmm, I think that's a good place to stop. Answering without spoiling is like trying to control the flow of a water tab, one that I'm not very good at controlling.
|2006-05-15, 16:00
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Beautiful fighter.
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: England, UK
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|2006-06-12, 16:12
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I have a slight confusion. What's the difference between the 'doujin game' and the visual sound novel" (or just sound novel in one of the sites that I saw). I'm trying to find a place where I can get them, but it's the doujin game mentioned here and the visual/sound novel (sound novel) that's completely throwing me off my path. Are they just the same thing?
|2006-06-12, 16:20
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You can refer to the Wikipedia entry that kj1980 wrote on Higurashi for more info. The link to the wiki should be on the first page of this thread.
|2006-06-14, 14:20
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Location: Poland
I guess it would have been asked earlier, but I didn't find anything - I understand in original game there is only bgm, without voice actress, I know also there is going to be released PS2 version with seiyuu, is there a chance that this version will be released also for PC? (my Japanese doesn't let me play the game with text only and I don't have PS2 ;/)
|2006-06-14, 17:57
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If you prefer listening to the story rather than reading it, you can always look to the Higurashi Drama CDs. These CDs practically contains the entire game in audio format, with seiyuus (the same ones in the anime) faithfully reproducing all the dialogues and narrations from the game.
Right now, drama CDs for Onikakushi-hen and Watanagashi-hen are out, and Tatarigoroshi-hen is soon to be released (6/28).
Just to give you an idea on the massive size of each game chapter, the voiced Onikakushi-hen is spread out across 3 audio CDs, while both Watanagashi and Tatarigoroshi-hen took 4 CDs to cover!
Oh yeah, for those of you who's interested, the trial version of the game is available for download again:
The trial version contains the entire Onikakushi-hen, so if you want to read the chapter in it's original form, or if you're just curious to know what the original game is like, then give it a download.
|2006-06-19, 23:16
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As of now, the answer has not changed from no.
That said, let me refer to a blogger who has been very nice to summarize the differences between the game and the anime. He just finished the first arc and is currently working on Watangashi-hen, so please make sure to watch both arcs before going to his site.
|2006-06-20, 01:00
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Age: 33
I'm done complaining, it's not going to change anything anyway. People should read those summaries of the game prepared by this guy, at least you will get an idea of what the game's story is really like (they still feel rushed, but I think he did a great job writing them. Can't blame him anyway, a detailed summary would probably take weeks to type )
My biggest fear is about Meakashi-hen right now. Given the anime's tendency to cut out most, if not all, monologues from the chapters. I can't even imagine what Meakashi will be like without _____'s monologues.
|2006-06-25, 04:36
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I absolutely love this show, and seeing all of these posts about how "The game is like 390840298492 times better than the anime" makes me want to play it. BUT I know nothing about how to get the game or play it, sooo, two questions:
1. Where are some sites I can order the game and get it shipped to me in the United States?
2. Honestly, for someone with little knowledge of Japanese (we're talking next-to-none), how hard/enjoyable would this game be if I just got a dictionary and tried to translate it?
Thanks for the help!
|2006-06-25, 05:43
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Age: 38
You can buy:
This one, which will get you all the questions arcs (Onikakushi~Himatsubushi)
And this one, which will get you the all answer arcs (Meakashi~Matsuribayashi).
2. I wouldn't know as I am native, but I would say that if you can read a Japanese news site such Asahi.com, you can play the game with no problem.
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|2006-07-07, 10:54
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Location: SoCal
2) Meakashi should be 5 EPs (guessing) - I can't imagine it shorter and I think it can be nicely done with that many. Tsumihoroboshi I'm guessing 6 which I don't feel is enough. Ch6 is long and is a roller coaster from start from finish more so than any of the other chapters. I'm guessing they'll cut out a lot from scrap 34 and flashbacks (both) short. Personally, I didn't like the chapter too much, but my favorite scenes/lines are in this one - go figure. I just hope they keep the "ending," which made me happy. だって殆んど連続事件に全然関係なかったから、それでちょっとイライラしてた。屋根での決闘はとくに... まぁ、圭ちゃんの決意はカッコウよかった。マジで惚れ直した ^^; They probably won't to keep the anime nicely wrapped up, but I hope they do. Akasaka fukki banzai~ \(^^)/
|2006-07-08, 01:42
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You faked all of it.
Join Date: Jun 2006
Age: 28
So I noticed that the first two answer arcs are basically the same as the first 2 answer arcs, just from someone else's point of view. Is Tsumihoroboshi-hen also Tatarigoroshi-hen from another point of view, or is it a completely new scenario?
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|2006-07-21, 17:38
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There is a program I read about here on the Animesuki forums that translates *some* Japanese games into english. It only works if the letters/words are formed using the OS, instead of being images projected to the game screen, and it requires the game in question to be run in windowed mode.
Unfortunately, I've lost the link, and cannot find the thread I read about it in.
Does anybody have a link to this, and has anybody tried to use it with Higurashi? I'd love to give the game a shot, but don't know the first thing about reading Japanese.
Edit: I found what I was talking about (I should have checked my bookmarks first, instead of the game threads)
The programs in question are: AGTH (Anime Game Text Hooker) and Oh!. The two seem to work similarly, but the maker of Oh! seems to think that AGTH might be better...
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|2006-07-21, 18:04
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Canada
Age: 33
Speaking of Twilight Frontier, Higurashi Daybreak's trial version is available for download over at their page:
(ダウンロード is the download page)
Fun~ ^^
Can't wait until Comike for the release.
|2006-07-22, 09:09
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Join Date: May 2006
Matsuribayashi-hen will be the final package for the Kai chapters, right? No more repackaging? Have 07th-Expansion announced any plans to make a single package of all eight chapters together? Because if so I wouldn't mind waiting a little longer to take the plunge if they did such a thing.
I'd also like to see a PC port of the PS2 voiced version even if it is unlikely
[edit: no more posting at 6am in the morning for me after staying up all night, also, i need to %@#$ing read]
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Not surprisingly, the more well known apps -- Uber, SideCar, Lyft and Tickengo -- all have received the coveted "red light." While according to the TLPA this means they're dangerous "rogue apps," to me it suggests that they're all doing something right. They're providing services that people want that are more convenient or better priced than the old guard, which is why the old guard has to attack them.
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ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) -- Defending champion Marcel Hirscher reclaimed the overall World Cup lead Sunday by winning a slalom for his third victory of the season.
The Austrian trailed Jens Byggmark by 0.01 seconds after the first leg but took advantage of the Swede's mistake in the second to win in a combined time of 1 minute, 56.17 seconds.
Andre Myhrer of Sweden was 0.57 back in second, and Hirscher's Austrian teammate Mario Matt came in 1.09 behind to take third.
"This result makes me really happy," Hirscher said. "I saw Andre's run from the start - it was brutal, so I knew I had to push from top to bottom to have a chance. I managed to do just that."
Byggmark nearly skied out in the final part of his second run and finished 26th, 3.46 seconds off Hirscher's winning time.
Hirscher overtook Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway, who usually skips slalom events, atop the overall standings. Hirscher has 740 points, followed by Svindal with 689 and American Ted Ligety, who skied out in the first run Sunday, with 552 points.
The race took part in rainy and partly foggy conditions, while mild temperatures further softened the course. Despite the poor weather, 17,000 cheering fans were lining up on the slope and in the finish area.
The Austrian's season is showing a remarkable resemblance to last year's. He also won the 2012 Zagreb race for his third victory of the season to take the overall lead. Hirscher then went on to become the first Austrian overall champion since Benjamin Raich in 2006.
Ligety was 0.47 off the lead when he straddled a gate about a third into his opening run.
"Straddling is part of the sport," Ligety said.
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"Not good," he added. "It was really rough already at (starting number) 11. ... It's definitely a surface that is not easy to push on and when it's foggy too, that makes it pretty difficult."


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