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The relationship between lysate protein concentration from untreated and PDGF-treated NIH/3T3 cells and the absorbance at 450 nm using PathScan® Phospho-Akt (Thr308) Sandwich ELISA Antibody Pair #7144 is shown. After overnight starvation, NIH/3T3 cells were treated with PDGF (50 ng/ml) for 10 minutes at 37ºC and then lysed.
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Capture and detection antibodies are stored at 4°C. HRP-linked secondary reagent is stored at -20°C.
NOTE: Prepare solutions with reverse osmosis deionized (RODI) or equivalent grade water.
1X Cell Lysis Buffer: 10X Cell Lysis Buffer (#9803): To prepare 10 ml of 1X Cell Lysis Buffer, add 1 ml of 10X Cell Lysis Buffer to 9 ml of dH2O, mix. Buffer can be stored at 4°C for short-term use (1–2 weeks).
Recommended: Add 1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (PMSF) (#8553) immediately before use.
STOP Solution: (#7002)
NOTE: Reagents should be made fresh daily.
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revised Sepetember 2013
Protocol Id: 20
CST's PathScan® Phospho-Akt (Thr308) Sandwich ELISA Antibody Pair is offered as an economical alternative to our PathScan® Phospho-Akt (Thr308) Sandwich ELISA Kit #7252. Capture and Detection Antibodies (100X stocks) and HRP-Conjugated Secondary Antibody (1000X stock) are supplied. Sufficient reagents are supplied for 4 x 96 well ELISAs. The Akt Rabbit Capture Antibody is coated in PBS overnight in a 96 well microplate. After blocking, cell lysates are added, followed by Phospho-Akt (Thr308) Mouse Detection Antibody and HRP-conjugated Anti-Mouse IgG. HRP substrate, TMB, is added for color development. The magnitude of the absorbance for this developed color is proportional to the quantity of phospho-Akt (Thr308) protein.
Antibodies in kit are custom formulations specific to kit.
For Antibody Pair specificity and sensitivity, please refer to the corresponding PathScan® Sandwich ELISA Kit. Note: This antibody pair detects proteins from the indicated species, as determined through in-house testing, but may also detect homologous proteins from other species.
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Akt, also referred to as PKB or Rac, plays a critical role in controlling survival and apoptosis (1-3). This protein kinase is activated by insulin and various growth and survival factors to function in a wortmannin-sensitive pathway involving PI3 kinase (2,3). Akt is activated by phospholipid binding and activation loop phosphorylation at Thr308 by PDK1 (4) and by phosphorylation within the carboxy terminus at Ser473. The previously elusive PDK2 responsible for phosphorylation of Akt at Ser473 has been identified as mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) in a rapamycin-insensitive complex with rictor and Sin1 (5,6). Akt promotes cell survival by inhibiting apoptosis through phosphorylation and inactivation of several targets, including Bad (7), forkhead transcription factors (8), c-Raf (9), and caspase-9. PTEN phosphatase is a major negative regulator of the PI3 kinase/Akt signaling pathway (10). LY294002 is a specific PI3 kinase inhibitor (11). Another essential Akt function is the regulation of glycogen synthesis through phosphorylation and inactivation of GSK-3α and β (12,13). Akt may also play a role in insulin stimulation of glucose transport (12). In addition to its role in survival and glycogen synthesis, Akt is involved in cell cycle regulation by preventing GSK-3β-mediated phosphorylation and degradation of cyclin D1 (14) and by negatively regulating the cyclin dependent kinase inhibitors p27 Kip1 (15) and p21 Waf1/Cip1 (16). Akt also plays a critical role in cell growth by directly phosphorylating mTOR in a rapamycin-sensitive complex containing raptor (17). More importantly, Akt phosphorylates and inactivates tuberin (TSC2), an inhibitor of mTOR within the mTOR-raptor complex (18,19).
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Welcome once again to demon's souls boss profiles, and today we have storm king as the main focus. After astrea, I went ahead to finish up world 4, storm of shrines. Kinda stupid, since back then, I didnt know how much souls I could farm by repeatedly killing storm beasts and using evacuate. Anyway, yeah, storm king, intimidating fellow, easily the biggest baddy in the game. Storm king is the boss of 4-3, old hero archstone.
|Yep, he's big alright.
Storm king, no matter how godamn big and scary he looks, isn't that tough of a fight. Half of the fight is actually spent killing his minions, those pesky storm beasts flying around. When you kill them, the storm king himself shows up, flying around like a huge ass air bomber, ready to show you how tiny and inferior you are compared to him. Still, with the right weapon, hes just a big pushover.
Flying stingers- The flying giant hovers right above in front of you and launches a slew of flying stingers at you. Very very painful if they connect, so try your best to avoid getting hit. Still, it shouldn't be enough to OHKO.
Sting shot- Something you should have seen before. The storm beasts launch their stings at you, doing some damage. Alone its not too bad, but since theres alot of these guys, prepare to be swarmed.
Entering the fog, you will immediately be showed a cutscene where the storm king enters the area. After that, the entire landscape will be flooded with storm beasts, with the storm king flying high up above, far from your reach. First, you will have to get rid of the pesky storm beasts before the king himself shows. But obviously, gunning all of these beasts down with just a bow and arrow will be quite a tedious and difficult task, since they tend to fly around each other, if you mess with one, you will probably end up messing with 3 or 4 more.
What you will want to do for this fight, is immediately when you enter the area, run all the way down the slope and head left. When you see some crystal geckos, you know you've hit the jackpot. Follow them (but your main focus isnt to kill them), and eventually you will hit a cliff with a sword stuck on a stone. Thats your ticket to this fight. Quickly take it and run back to the entrance (or you can just die and come back, you already got the sword). Now, with the storm ruler in hand, prepare to kick ass.
Dual wield the sword and start using heavy attacks, they will shoot out shockwaves that come down in huge columns. These do big damage, enough to one shot the sotrm beasts. Now you stand a chance against these ganging losers. If timed carefully, 1 shockwave can take out two storm beasts or more, keep hitting the storm beasts and see them fall 1 by 1. When you kill them until theres only a few left, the storm comes down to finally challenge you. The real fight begins.
|Prepare to kick ass.
Now, when the storm king starts coming down, you will immediately see him launch those scary flying stingers at you. Hide behind one of the many rocks or pillars laying around. After the assualt is over, hit him with your stormruler. This will hurt him quite abit, but your assault doesn't stop there, the storm king retreats slowly, and hes one huge motherfker. That just means that you can hit him a couple more times before he goes out of your range again. Everytime the storm king comes down, make sure you land three hits on him, or if you cant, at least two. Each hit will do about 150 damage or so.
You can see where this is going, each time he comes to hit you, you can do at least 300+ damage to him. Rinse and repeat this about 3 times and hes dead meat. Just make sure though, everytime he comes to attack you, hide behind a rock or pillar, since if you are hit, you will suffer big time damage.
Not too hard, storm king is quite easy compared to most other bosses, since he only has one attack. The times you will die here are probably against the storm beasts, since theres so many of them, screwing up once will get you hit multiple times.


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Memoir'44 army deployment system.
This is the latest version of my Army Deployment System for Memoir'44. With this system, you can set up your army on the battlefield, instead of playing with the fixed deployment that comes with the current Memoir44 scenarios. - - This is a beta version. Any feedback is welcome. - - You also need to download the different deployment card files to play with these rules, as well as the scenarios. Rules: This file explains how the system works. - - Deployment card files: US:, Germany: , USSR: , BCF: , Japan: . You need to print these, cut them out, fold them and put them in card sleeves (at least that is the way I did it). I've made a set of scenarios to come with this deployment system: You can use these to play this expansion and get a feel of how this works. I will make more scenarios in the future, but you are all invited to make your own as well. I'm always willing to give some advise on how to calculate how many deployment cards each camp should get.


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Ronald V. "Bucky" Leonardi was no shrinking violet. Not even close.
A giant sports figure behind the scenes in Rochester, Bucky died Oct. 5 at home after a brief illness. He was 78.
Over 100 people showed up to honor Bucky's memory last Thursday at the Rochester Elks Lodge — an impressive turnout for a weekday afternoon. But then again, Bucky touched a lot of lives and left a distinct mark.
"As you can see, he's got quite a few friends here," said friend Rod Wotton, a Spaulding High School graduate, like Bucky, and a high school football coaching legend in Maine and New Hampshire. Bucky coached with Wotton at Marshwood High School in the 1970s.
Bucky graduated from Spaulding in 1953. He served in the United States Air Force, and was employed at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and later at Heidelberg Harris. He was a life member of the Rochester Elks, American Legion Post 7 and the Club Victoire. He is survived by his children, Christine, Ronald, Dino and Melissa.
As for his nickname, he earned it growing up in Gonic, living with his grandmother, Jennie Harris. Some of the neighborhood guys would say "Hey, Bucky Harris", after the old baseball player and manager of the same name from the first half of the 20th century.
Bucky's sporting resume in Rochester is indeed impressive. He played quarterback for the Tri-City Chargers semi-pro football team. He coached midget football and basketball, coached the Rochester Post 7 American Legion baseball team, and helped the late Bob Berry as a volunteer assistant with the Spaulding boys basketball team.
He was on the organizing committee for the Rochester Slow-Pitch Softball League and assisted in the construction of Riverside Park on the Old Dover Road, which is still in use today by the local men's softball league.
Bucky was a long time member of the Rochester Athletic Association and served on the Rochester Elks Sports Hall of Fame Committee. He was actively involved in many of the Elks fund-raising activities.
He managed the Allain's Jewelry men's softball team, which won numerous league titles and back-to-back ASA state championships in 1968 and 1969.
"Everything he did in life was aggressive," Wotton said. "He was 100,000 miles of rough road. He lived his life to the fullest."
He let you know about it, too.
"Bucky let you know where he came from," said friend and Elks member Bobby Bouchard. "But he was an honest guy."
"He was a taskmaster," recalled friend Zane Chase, who played for Bucky on the Allain's teams. "You always knew where you stood with him, right away. Bucky was Bucky. There was no other."
Bucky ran the Allain's softball teams with an iron fist. There were team practices and the squad was held to a certain standard that Bucky made sure to maintain.
"He was very firm," Chase said. "We had practices and you had to be at practices."
"The whole team went," recalled Cider Berry. "Bucky was the coach and you didn't miss practice."
And you sure didn't eat hotdogs on the bench during a game.
That once happened in Nashua, said Chase.
"There's this guy eating a hotdog at the end of the bench; pretty good ballplayer, too," Chase said. "Bucky took him out of the game. 'You're not eating no hotdog while we're playing.'"
His friend Lee Sanfacon recalled competitive softball days at Keay Field in East Rochester before Riverside Park was built.
"He beat me most of the time," Sanfacon said. "One time we're calling each other names from dugout to dugout. After the game, we're raking the field up. He lived around the corner at Keay Field. He said, 'We're having spaghetti, come over and eat.' That's the kind of guy he was. He was an impulsive type of guy."
Sanfacon recalled playing golf with Bucky, who was a hacker at best.
"We'd play two or three holes and he's say 'I'm all done' and go sit in the car," Sanfacon said. "Two or three holes later he'd get out of the car and be back playing. He was impulsive all of the time."
Impulsive, but often with a touch of gold.
Cider Berry recalled when his daughter Tiffany was born his wife Marilyn was having trouble breast feeding, so they were trying to get Tiffany to take a bottle.
"Both of us were in a panic," Cider said. "Bucky said, 'For crying out loud, give her here. I'll show you how to do it.' Bucky gave my daughter Tiffany the first bottle she ever had."
Bucky was a feisty customer, never afraid of confrontation. Before Allain's rose to softball prominence in New Hampshire, Weeks Ice Cream in Dover was the team to beat (back-to-back state champs in 1965 and 1966).
Weeks was managed by Larry Redden who recalled the first time he had a run-in with Bucky. The two teams were playing each other in a tournament in Lebanon. Early in the game, Weeks had an injury and Redden asked Bucky for a courtesy runner. Bucky agreed and the courtesy runner later scored a run. As the game progressed, the situation arose for Allain's and Bucky asked the same favor.
"I said no," Redden recalled, who was playing third base. "Bucky made a beeline across the field to me. I said hold on, this is the way it is. You learn your first lesson playing this game: Don't give anybody anything. We became best friends from that day on. He was fantastic. He was as honest as the day is long."
Bucky was a pretty good athlete, too. Cider Berry said he could have played anywhere on the Allain's teams had he chosen to. Wotton recalled his ability as the quarterback for the Chargers.
"He was quite a football player," Wotton said. "I remember one game down in Springfield, Mass. They were called the Acorns and they had a lot of last cuts from the pros. Bucky put on a show. They couldn't catch him. He ran all over the place. We got numbed, but he was the player of the game, I'll tell you that."
Coach, athlete, father and feisty friend. All those describe Bucky Leonardi, a passionate man who cared about Rochester and did his small part to make it better.
"He was a scrapper," said his son, Dino. "He was a good man. He made me what I am today."
"You knew where you stood with Bucky and he was honest and he gave you his opinion," Bouchard added. "He worked very hard for things he believed in."
Mike Whaley is the Sports Editor for Foster's Daily Democrat and the Rochester Times. He can be reached at email@example.com.
Backing down not in Bucky's vocabulary
Ronald V. "Bucky" Leonardi was no shrinking violet. Not even close.


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AFRICAAM 19: Studies in Music, Media, and Popular Culture: The Soul Tradition in African American Music (AMSTUD 147J, CSRE 147J, MUSIC 147J, MUSIC 247J)
The African American tradition of soul music from its origins in blues, gospel, and jazz to its influence on today's r&b, hip hop, and dance music. Style such as rhythm and blues, Motown, Southern soul, funk, Philadelphia soul, disco, Chicago house, Detroit techno, trip hop, and neo-soul. Soul's cultural influence and global reach; its interaction with politics, gender, place, technology, and the economy. Pre-/corequisite (for music majors): MUSIC 22. (WIM at 4 units only.)
Last offered: Winter 2015 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
AFRICAAM 21: African American Vernacular English (CSRE 21, LINGUIST 65)
The English vernacular spoken by African Americans in big city settings, and its relation to Creole English dialects spoken on the S. Carolina Sea Islands (Gullah), in the Caribbean, and in W. Africa. The history of expressive uses of African American English (in soundin' and rappin'), and its educational implications. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-ED
Instructors: Rickford, J. (PI) ; Todd, S. (TA)
2016-2017 Winter
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| Students enrolled: 12
01/09/2017 - 03/17/2017 Tue, Thu 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM at School of Education 334 with Rickford, J. (PI); Todd, S. (TA)
Exam Date/Time: 2017-03-21 3:30pm - 6:30pm (Exam Schedule)
Instructors: Rickford, J. (PI); Todd, S. (TA)
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AFRICAAM 28: Health Impact of Sexual Assault and Relationship Abuse across the Lifecourse (HUMBIO 28)
Cross-listed with SOMGEN 237 and FEMGEN 237. HumBio students must enroll in HumBio 28 or AFRICAAM 28. An overview of the acute and chronic physical and psychological health impact of sexual abuse through the perspective of survivors of childhood, adolescent, young and middle adult, and elder abuse, including special populations such as pregnant women, military and veterans, prison inmates, individuals with mental or physical impairments. Also addresses: race/ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, and other demographic and societal factors, including issues specific to college culture. Professionals with expertise in sexual assault present behavioral and prevention efforts such as bystander intervention training, medical screening, counseling and other interventions to manage the emotional trauma of abuse. Undergraduates must enroll for 3 units. Medical and graduate students should enroll in SOMGEN 237 for 1-3 units. To receive a letter grade in any listing, students must enroll for 3 units. This course must be taken for a letter grade and a minimum of 3 units to be eligible for Ways credit.
Terms: Aut | Units: 1-3 | UG Reqs: WAY-ED
Instructors: Stefanick, M. (PI) ; Alqueza, K. (TA)
2016-2017 Autumn
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Section 01 |
Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
| Students enrolled: 10
09/26/2016 - 12/09/2016 Mon, Wed 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM at 200-303 with Stefanick, M. (PI); Alqueza, K. (TA)
Axess Enrollment will open for students on September 1st.
Instructors: Stefanick, M. (PI); Alqueza, K. (TA)
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AFRICAAM 41: Genes and Identity (ANTHRO 41, CSRE 41A)
In recent decades genes have increasingly become endowed with the cultural power to explain many aspects of human life: physical traits, diseases, behaviors, ancestral histories, and identity. In this course we will explore a deepening societal intrigue with genetic accounts of personal identity and political meaning. Students will engage with varied interdisciplinary sources that range from legal cases to scientific articles, medical ethics guidelines, films, and anthropological works (ethnographies). We will explore several case studies where the use of DNA markers (as proof of heritage, disease risk, or legal standing) has spawned cultural movements that are biosocial in nature. Throughout we will look at how new social movements are organized around gene-based definitions of personhood, health, and legal truth. Several examples include political analyses of citizenship and belonging. On this count we will discuss issues of African ancestry testing as evidence in slavery reparations cases, revisit debates on whether Black Freedman should be allowed into the Cherokee and Seminole Nations, and hear arguments on whether people with genetic links to Jewish groups should have a right of return to Israel. We will also examine the ways genetic knowledge may shape different health politics at the individual and societal level. On this count we will do close readings of how personal genomics testing companies operate, we will investigate how health disparities funding as well as orphan disease research take on new valences when re-framed in genetic terms, and we will see how new articulations of global health priorities are emerging through genetic research in places like Africa. Finally we will explore social implications of forensic uses of DNA. Here we will examine civil liberties concerns about genetic familial searching in forensic databases that disproportionately target specific minority groups as criminal suspects, and inquire into the use of DNA to generate digital mugshots of suspects that re-introduce genetic concepts of race.
Last offered: Winter 2016 | UG Reqs: WAY-ED, WAY-SI
AFRICAAM 43: Introduction to English III: Introduction to African American Literature (AMSTUD 12A, ENGLISH 12A)
(Formerly English 43/143). In his bold study, What Was African American Literature?, Kenneth Warren defines African American literature as a late nineteenth- to mid-twentieth-century response to the nation's Jim Crow segregated order. But in the aftermath of the Jim Crow era and the Civil Rights movement, can critics still speak, coherently, of "African American literature"? And how does this political conception of African American literary production compare with accounts grounded in black language and culture? Taking up Warren's intervention, this course will explore African American literature from its earliest manifestations in the spirituals and slave narratives to texts composed at the height of desegregation and decolonization struggles at mid-century and beyond.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Instructors: Rasberry, V. (PI)
2016-2017 Winter
5 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED |
Class #
Section 01 |
Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) |
| Students enrolled: 8
01/09/2017 - 03/17/2017 Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM at School of Education 128 with Rasberry, V. (PI)
Exam Date/Time: 2017-03-22 12:15pm - 3:15pm (Exam Schedule)
Instructors: Rasberry, V. (PI)
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AFRICAAM 47: History of South Africa (CSRE 74, HISTORY 47)
(Same as HISTORY 147. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 147.) Introduction, focusing particularly on the modern era. Topics include: precolonial African societies; European colonization; the impact of the mineral revolution; the evolution of African and Afrikaner nationalism; the rise and fall of the apartheid state; the politics of post-apartheid transformation; and the AIDS crisis.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Instructors: Campbell, J. (PI)
2016-2017 Autumn
3 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-ED, WAY-SI |
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Section 01 |
Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
| Students enrolled: 34
09/26/2016 - 12/09/2016 Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM at 200-002 with Campbell, J. (PI)
Exam Date/Time: 2016-12-14 12:15pm - 3:15pm (Exam Schedule)
Axess Enrollment will open for students on September 1st.
Instructors: Campbell, J. (PI)
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AFRICAAM 48Q: South Africa: Contested Transitions (HISTORY 48Q)
Preference to sophomores. The inauguration of Nelson Mandela as president in May 1994 marked the end of an era and a way of life for South Africa. The changes have been dramatic, yet the legacies of racism and inequality persist. Focus: overlapping and sharply contested transitions. Who advocates and opposes change? Why? What are their historical and social roots and strategies? How do people reconstruct their society? Historical and current sources, including films, novels, and the Internet.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-ED, WAY-SI, Writing 2
Instructors: Samoff, J. (PI)
2016-2017 Winter
4 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-ED, WAY-SI, Writing 2 |
Class #
Section 01 |
Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
01/09/2017 - 03/17/2017 Mon 12:30 PM - 1:20 PM at Encina West 108 with Samoff, J. (PI)
01/09/2017 - 03/17/2017 Tue 1:30 PM - 4:20 PM at Encina West 108 with Samoff, J. (PI)
Exam Date/Time: 2017-03-24 12:15pm - 3:15pm (Exam Schedule)
Instructors: Samoff, J. (PI)
AFRICAAM 52: Introduction to Improvisation in Dance: From Salsa to Vodun to Tap Dance (CSRE 152, TAPS 152)
This seminar introduces students to Dance Studies by exploring the topic of improvisation, a central concept in multiple genres of dance and music. We will survey a range of improvised dance forms¿from salsa to vodun to tap dance¿through readings, video viewings, discussion, and movement exercises (no previous dance experience required). When studying each genre, we will examine how race, gender, sexuality, citizenship, and other power structures affect the practices and theorizations of improvisation. Topics include community and identity formation; questions of technique versus ¿natural¿ ability; improvisation as a spiritual practice; and the role of history in improvisers¿ quest for spontaneity. Course material will focus on improvised dance, but we will also read pertinent literature in jazz music, theatre, and the law.
Last offered: Winter 2016 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
AFRICAAM 52N: Mixed-Race Politics and Culture (ENGLISH 52N, POLISCI 29N)
Today, almost one-third of Americans identify with a racial/ethnic minority group, and more than 9 million Americans identify with multiple races. What are the implications of such diversity for American politics and culture? In this course, we approach issues of race from an interdisciplinary perspective, employing research in the social sciences and humanities to assess how race shapes perceptions of identity as well as political behavior in 21st century U.S. We will examine issues surrounding the role of multiculturalism, immigration, acculturation, racial representation and racial prejudice in American society. Topics we will explore include the political and social formation of "race"; racial representation in the media, arts, and popular culture; the rise and decline of the "one-drop rule" and its effect on political and cultural attachments; the politicization of Census categories and the rise of the Multiracial Movement.
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Instructors: Davenport, L. (PI) ; Elam, M. (PI)
2016-2017 Winter
3 units |
UG Reqs: WAY-ED, WAY-SI |
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Section 01 |
Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) |
01/09/2017 - 03/17/2017 Tue 1:30 PM - 4:20 PM at 200-202 with Davenport, L. (PI); Elam, M. (PI)
Instructors: Davenport, L. (PI); Elam, M. (PI)
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AFRICAAM 54N: African American Women's Lives (AMSTUD 54N, CSRE 54N, FEMGEN 54N, HISTORY 54N)
Preference to freshmen. We will examine the struggles of African American women to define their own lives and improve the social, economic, political and cultural conditions of black communities. Topics will include women¿s enslavement and freedom, kinship and family relations, institution and community building, violence, labor and leisure, changing gender roles, consumer and beauty culture, social activism, and the politics of sexuality.
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Instructors: Hobbs, A. (PI)
2016-2017 Winter
3 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED |
Class #
Section 01 |
Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) |
01/09/2017 - 03/17/2017 Tue, Thu 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM at 200-105 with Hobbs, A. (PI)
Instructors: Hobbs, A. (PI)
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Dwayne Godwin is a neuroscientist at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. His Twitter handle is @brainyacts. Jorge Cham draws the comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper at www.phdcomics.com.
Erratum (1/29/13): The top sentence in the first panel of the cartoon should read--"One in eight older Americans have Alzheimer's disease."


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Easy chocolate cupcakes
These light cakes are perfect for freezing – they just need a quick blast in the microwave to bring them back to life
Nutrition and extra info
- Can be frozen un-iced
Nutrition: per cake
- kcal534
- fat31g
- saturates11g
- carbs62g
- sugars46g
- fibre0g
- protein6g
- salt0.3g
- 300g dark chocolate, broken into chunks - don't use one with a high cocoa content
Dark chocolatedahk chok-o-let
Dark chocolate means the shiny, dark-reddish brown treat produced from the cacao bean, theobroma…
- 200g self-raising flour
- 200g light muscovado sugar, plus 3 tbsp extra
- 6 tbsp cocoa
- 150ml sunflower oil, plus a little extra for greasing
Sunflower oil
Sunflower oil is made from pressing sunflower seeds and extracting the oil. It's usually…
- 284ml pot soured cream
- 2 eggs
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition packed with protein and a…
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4 and line a 10-hole muffin tin with paper cases. Whizz the chocolate into small pieces in a food processor. In the largest mixing bowl you have, tip in the flour, sugar, cocoa, oil, 100ml soured cream, eggs, vanilla and 100ml water. Whisk everything together with electric beaters until smooth, then quickly stir in 100g of the whizzed-up chocolate bits. Divide between the 10 cases, then bake for 20 mins until a skewer inserted comes out clean (make sure you don't poke it into a chocolate chip bit). Cool on a wire rack.
To make the icing, put the remaining chocolate bits, soured cream and 3 tbsp sugar in a small saucepan. Heat gently, stirring, until the chocolate is melted and you have a smooth icing. Chill in the fridge until firm enough to swirl on top of the muffins, then tuck in.
Recipe Tip
Mocha cakeButter a round, deep 20cm cake tin, then line the base with baking paper. Make the cake batter as before, adding 1 tbsp instant coffee dissolved in 1 tbsp hot water. Tip into the tin, then bake for 50-60 mins until risen and springy to the touch. Insert a skewer into the middle – it's ready if the skewer comes out clean. If not, give it 5 mins more. Cool completely on a wire rack, then top with the icing.


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Hey, im trying to learn packaging and importing, I already know what they do, (correct me if im wrong) packaging lets you bring in entire folders/loads of information into your program to work with, like a web adress to access certain "imports" and other things, while coding, and is the first line of code,
importing lets you bring in a certain group or 1 indivisual certain item into your program to use, and ur code can have as many imports as pleased.
My question is:
How do I know when to "import" and "package"?
I am trying to learn importing mainly, and when to do it, and how to do it, and how to know what and when to import, if anyone can answer this, and/or teach me, thank you...
And my final rookie question is: What is packaging? I watched some videos on Youtube about packaging and importing, and they didnt really explain it well... Mostly cause I couldnt understand what the guy was saying cause he had like... Some Russian accent or something
Anyway, please help me out with imports and packages


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Just as Nascar spurs ardent fans and detractors, there's an equally strident break between supporters and haters of "Top Gear USA." This May, they can all come together at Nascar's Top Gear 300, the combination Pizza Hut/Taco Bell of motorsports.
While some may see attaching the Top Gear name to the Nascar Nationwide Series race on May 28 as blasphemy mounting blasphemy, I say there's a lot of potential here for both sides. If Travis Pastrana can keep a stock car on the track, Tanner Foust deserves a few laps in something with more grunt than the pace car. Adam Ferrara should see how fast he can get a Winnebago going around Charlotte with a functioning moonshine still in back. And Rutledge Wood could raffle off the shaving of a driver's number into his face forest.
I'd suggest letting someone Stig it up (Danica?) but officials would cough up a ham bone if a driver ever got camera time wearing a suit unmolested by sponsorship patches. This is Nascar. There are rules.


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I access the web via mobile on a daily basis, but that doesn't mean the mobile web is fine and dandy. Publishing 2.0 says the mobile web sucks, Russell Beattie disputes it. His arguments don't make sense – the mobile web is getting better, but still sucks.
1) 3G is slow? Get a better 3G phone and then learn how to use it. My preferred mobile (an LG CU500) gets DSL speeds down, and my preferred browser (Opera mini) is as easy to use as a desktop browser, and just as fast.
Yes, 3G is slow. I researched my phone extensively and came up with a popular choice, the Orange SPV M700, aka HTC Trinity, aka, HTC P3600. Pretty good for text-only sites, though you notice the latency, but image-heavy sites load very slowly. When this happens on a mobile, it sucks as you have to scroll around for ages to find the text between the unloaded images.
Browser, don't talk to me about browser! I registered Opera for my phone – it's better than IE because it supports tabbing. However, it's vastly disappointing – its auto-completion is based on the last 10 or so addresses you visited, there's no easy way to go to your homepage, and the real deal-breaker is the poor support of bookmarks. About 3 deep in the menu hierarchy to add bookmarks and 3 deep to change them.
2) Public Wifi is a Scam? No s***, Sherlock. You can't depend on WiFi outside your house or office. Again, get yourself a decent phone on a 3G network and you won't have this problem. I double-check prices inside Best Buy in seconds, chat on IM while having a coffee and entertain my kid with downloaded videos all via 3G networks, and I don't think twice about whether there's WiFi around.
In his own affable way, Russell agrees with the original poster, so nothing to say here. It was interesting to see the recent UK IPhone announcement based on free access to TheCloud wifi network as a poor compromise for the lack of 3G. If I was ever going to trade up for an iphone, that stopped me in my tracks – no way would I put my entire connectivity down to whether or not I happen to be near a hotspot.
3) Sites aren't formatted for small screens… Um, well, then those sites aren't part of the Mobile Web, are they? Even if you're talking about *accessing regular web sites while mobile* it's still a dumb-ass thing to bitch about as it just highlights one's inability to use a decent mobile browser and or the lack of effort to bookmark a site's mobile version. A couple years ago there might have been a dearth of mobile sites, but just about every major site out there now – from Typepad to Yahoo to Wikipedia, have m.* versions.
Um, well, then that means the mobile web sucks doesn't it? Most sites don't make it obvious they have a mobile version (m.) even when it does exist – am I going to try out m. just in case. Fine for a site you visit regularly but not worth the effort for the many sites you just drop in and out of. Yes, it's possible to change the view by diving into the browser menu again – however, even with my speedy 400MHz phone, it usually takes 5-15 seconds to re-render, and you usually have to scroll back down again. You might even have to do this a couple of times before you get the view right, you might never get it right.
4) Mobile device screens are too small? Oh, well, that's it then! By this definition, the mobile web will never un-suck, because if you're looking at the web on a device that doesn't fit in your pocket, IT'S NOT MOBILE NOW IS IT?!? I guess we can all go home now. Someone call me when they've figured out how to put an 20 inch XVGA screen in the palm of my hand. What a f*** dumb-ass criticism.
This is true for now, but not forever – foldable devices like old-school Game-N-Watches and the Nintendo DS hint at what's possible in the future. Electronic Ink can be made in a form that folds up and it's also possible to project onto a wall. For now, though, the manufacturers could do more to compensate for the small screen – e.g. better browsers and better use of text-to-speech and speech-to-text (two technologies which have been around for decades and a perfect fit for mobile devices, but are virtually non-existent in modern phones).
5) Advertising gets in the way? Again, what the f***? First, no ads means you'd be bitching about how everything on the mobile web costs money. Secondly, there's hardly any ads on the mobile web to begin with. Thirdly, are there any regular websites out there that don't have ads? Complaining about a website having ads is like complaining it's not 1996 anymore. Grow up.
Ads aren't a major problem to me, certainly not significant compared to the problems you have with images. The only issue I have with Russell's comment here is his insistence to keep referring to "the mobile web", which sounds like some kind of Compuserve-like parallel universe. I assume he means the tiny subset of websites that have a mobile version, but I don't consider that a separate "web". If for no other reason, they don't even link to each other – if a yahoo page gets to the top of digg, then diggriver.com (mobile digg) is not going to link to m.yahoo.com. In some cases, the browser will end up rendering the mobile version (if you're lucky), but this is a dual-edged sword – there are many mobile devices around, which means the main site is better than the mobile one, which simply doesn't work.
(I covered up swear-words in Russell's quotes – doesn't do much for me either way, but some filtering software will block the post if I left it in.)
For these reasons, I mainly tend to stick to one website, the same website I've browsed on my phone for three years and one which has always had a decent mobile version. Bloglines.


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Car plunges from overpass onto basketball court
Two people in car seriously injured
Two people were seriously injured when their car plunged from an overpass onto a basketball court below.
The crash happened just after 2 a.m. at 35th and Pierce streets.
VIDEO: Car plunges off the viaduct in Milwaukee
Police said a 2008 Chevy Cobalt was traveling southbound across the viaduct at a high rate of speed when the driver lost control and struck the guardrail.
The vehicle fell over the edge, coming to rest on its roof just feet away from some homes.
"This huge boom, and it just immediately woke me up, and I jumped out of bed, and I looked out the window, and I couldn't believe what I'd seen -- a car in the yard," said a witness who didn't wish to be identified.
A 24-year-old Mequon man and a 31-year-old Milwaukee woman were in the car. Police said they don't know who was driving.
The man is in serious condition and the woman in critical condition at an area hospital.


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Hey guys! If you haven't stopped down at Collabor88's big 2nd birthday bash, you really need to before it's over! It's huge! And there's two floors of amazing products this round. I went broke! But I don't even care because I love everything I picked up there haha. I finally got a new skin, from Glam Affair, at Collabor88. It's so stinkin' cute! And ugh, so much more. Just take a look!
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I really love that I've been getting into blogging again. I've surly missed it over the past year, as it's what I started out doing, before creating poses. I love buying new things that I can't wait to have. Or putting together awesome looks from things I already have that I forgot about.
But this week, I have lots of new stuff that I fell instantly in love with. I love this necklace from Atooly. If it has a mustache on it, I need it in my inventory haha. Plus, this super cute fringe top from Le Forme. Totally reminds me of summer. And both can be found at SLFW this round!
Enough of my babbling though! Here's the goodies!
Nothin' But Net
I was so bored tonight, I decided to just go through my inventory, and pick out things to wear! I kind of do this a lot. No reason not to wear random things from your inventory more than once, right? 😛 Hope you enjoy my looks as much as I did!
I'm baaackkkk!
Hi! I know, I know. It's been a long time. About a year? But man, I've really missed blogging. A lot. And a lot lately too. So here I am again. I hope you guys enjoy following me again! Stay tuned for lots more too! ❤
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Fashion Bishes Is Coming To An End
Hey everyone! Long time, no see haha. I've been super busy lately with my store and have had no time to blog! But I am back now, and starting over with a fresh start!
Below is the link to my new blog. Fashion Bishes will be here still, but this will be the last post! So please click on over and follow the new one!
Summer Harvest Hunt Starts Tomorrow!
Oh yeahh. Summer is almost over which means fall is right around the corner. Which is awesome for me because I LOVE fall. Maybe it's because my birthday is October, or all the pretty fall colors, or that it's hoodie weather. I just know it's my favorite! And what better way to head into fall than with an end of the summer hunt!
Summer Harvest Hunt Blog w/ SLurls and Hints
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Wheat Thins
Okay, so yeah, my title has nothing to do with this post but whatever haha. I wanted to do this post because not only did I get my boyfriend to pose with me, I am absolutely in love with this shirt and hair from Collabor88 August round. It is Collabor88's one year anniversary so there is tons of stuff this month, so this is one place you must stop at!
No Lies, Just Love
So as ya'll know, Hair Fair has begun! Crawl out from under that rock if you don't know yet 😛 This is just one of several super cute hairs from Wasabi Pills at The Hair Fair. Percentages of the sales at Hair Fair go to a charity, Wigs for Kids. For all the info on it, visit here!
Do I look like I care?
/me waves like a crazy person! Hai! I know I've been MIA. Super deep blogging rut I was in. But I'm back now looking all cute! I'm so in love with this hair from Lelutka. Ugh. And everything I'm wearing haha. Take a look!


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78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3556, Chapter 759
Description: Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to management of and certain actions and proceedings of the Sterling County Underground Water Conservation District.
Date: 2003-05/2003-06
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
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Application Area: RT-PCR and PCR Sample Preparation
"This is really an excellent product of Eppendorf. It makes the sample preparation very easy and with with full accuracy. The instrument we are using for the sample preparation for RT-PCR - ABI 7500 and Eppendorf Mastercycler Nexus Gradient. We are also using this for the DNA Extraction from blood and body fluid. We are also using this for serial dilution also. The pipetting is done with this instrument without noise. The IR Sensor is very sensitive and detects the labware. Few of the complicated DNA Extraction was done on this Epmotion. The door sensor is also very excellent feature; the system will operate only if the door of epmotion is locked. The software part is also very easy to operate. In Future we are planning for DNA Sequence and we are going to use the same instrument for the sample preparation of DNA Sequence. I really thank Eppendorf for developing this type of innovative instrument. Weare also planning to get one DNA Extraction 5075TMX."
Member since: 2008
Organization: University of Copenhagen; Section of Forensic Genetics
Application Area:Forensics
"Easy and simple to program and use. The tip-counting feature and deck-check features prevents loading failures. For simple pipetting using the same script over and over this is a nice system. The downsides are: only 4 deck positions (PCR setup not possible), manual change of tool required if needed, slow when handling many samples."
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Application Area:Small molecule bioanalytical work
"Easy to program, on average it takes 60 minutes to develop a program. Cost efficient compared to other automated liquid handlers. Small footprint, can fit in and on lab benches that have limited spacing."
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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
At every client where I've worked, there have always been questions about UNION and UNION ALL. They may return the same results or they may not. It all depends on the data. If you don't have any duplicates, you'll get the same number of rows returned whether you use UNION or UNION ALL. If you have duplicates, UNION will return fewer rows than UNION ALL.
No matter who your database vendor is, a UNION statement follows the rules of set theory. Set theory tells us that a set only contains unique elements. In other words, there are no duplicates in a set. If you use a UNION statement, you will not see any duplicate values in your result set. To toss out the duplicates, the database engine has to do some type of sort or merge operation to identify the duplicates. The side effect of this is that your result set tends to be ordered. Notice I said tends. This is a big misconception about UNION statements. You may have always seen the results of UNION statements to be perfectly ordered. Just because you observe a query returning sorted results without an ORDER BY statement doesn't mean you can always count on sorted results. If you require the results to be ordered, you must use an ORDER BY clause. Without it, you're gambling.
I've provided some sample code that will work anywhere for you to play with and learn. Select the first three lines and execute them by themselves to see in what order the results appear. Then execute everything. Examine the output and remember what you learned for the next time when it is a real coding assignment.
I'm in the habit of using UNION ALL unless I explicitly want the dedupe semantics of UNION specifically because it's faster (as you allude to).


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Accessibility takes many forms. While many if not most people have a fixed concept of accessibility that revolves around screen-reader compatibility with published content, the reality is that each product, be it an application, a document, a device or a protocol, has its own capabilities and limitations. And when we review our product teams' work, sometimes we find unexpected ways to improve the user experience for people of all types.
A recent example is one of our newer products, Adobe Edge Inspect—one of a host of apps we're working on to make HTML-based development easier for developers, designers and testers. Edge Inspect has three components: a desktop application that runs in the System Tray on Windows or the Menu Bar on OSX, which connects mobile apps running on iOS and Android to a Google Chrome extension, allowing testers to browse and debug the same mobile site across numerous devices simultaneously. It's one of those apps that you don't know you need until you know you could have it.
When I saw this demo last year, once I picked my jaw up off of the floor, I grabbed their demonstration iPad and turned on VoiceOver, the screen reader that's built into iOS. This is usually how I shame mobile engineers. (Who says accessibility people can't have hobbies?) But to my surprise, most of what was there already worked. Before they'd done any custom work, the Edge Inspect team had built a tool that would let me test mobile accessibility use cases alongside the visual layout.
Adobe Accessibility's Michael Jordan worked with the Edge Inspect team to complete the job, both by tying up loose ends (like naming buttons and ordering controls), and by introducing accessibility features into the Chrome extension. That work is shipping in the latest version of Edge Inspect—which, by the way, you can get just by signing up for a free Adobe Creative Cloud account.
It's important to remember that it's not just the end user of a mobile site who may have a disability; your developers and testers may make use of that support as well. We talk a lot with our colleagues at all levels within Adobe about the role accessibility plays in what we create, and how people build upon our work. We can talk about how this or that is required by law, or by policy, but sometimes, as with Edge Inspect, we find a great opportunity to expand both the audience and the capabilities of a tool, with just a little polish. We have even more improvements coming soon, but more importantly, by working together, we have another product team that's taking a broader view when it comes to designing for their users.
I'll be more than happy to put this in my tool box. This is fabulous. Thank you.


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When and where should you dedupe?
Data deduplication has clear benefits. But to realise the technology's goodness, you need to plan when and where to dedupe - and whether hardware or software is best-suited to the job.
The impact that data growth is having on backup windows is driving more organizations to implement disk-to-disk backup. This has created tremendous interest in data deduplication because the capacity optimization resulting from deduplication means that data can be retained longer on disk, which increases the likelihood of a disk-based recovery vs. a slower, manual, tape-based recovery.
While deduplication has been a feature of several backup offerings for years, the technology has been most widely adopted in backup hardware, such as virtual tape libraries (VTLs) and network-attached storage (NAS)-based disk targets. Meanwhile, deduplication implementations in backup software require organizations to switch out legacy solutions, which the hardware-based deduplication vendors have made sure to point out isn't always a desirable path. Now that mainstream backup software vendors such as CommVault, EMC Corp., IBM Corp. and Symantec Corp. are incorporating data deduplication into their backup products (reducing the amount of disruption caused by implementing deduplication), the question is being asked again: Where does deduplication belong in backup?
Software-based deduplication
Software-based approaches are differentiated in a few ways. First, they have knowledge about the data in the backup stream; they can look at patterns in the data stream (the bytes that make up a file) and determine the optimal segment boundaries, which maximizes the likelihood of identifying duplicates. In short, backup software understands the content, whereas target-side deduplication solutions typically don't. Targets simply receive a "blob" of data from the backup application. Those target-side deduplication devices that are content-aware typically have to extract the meta data associated with the backup and "reverse engineer" the backup stream to understand its contents.
Second, integration with the backup software allows for policy-based deduplication. Deduplication can be disabled for selected data sets where it doesn't make sense to turn it on (such as an MRI image) or for other data types (like databases) where you don't want to interfere with performance.
One of the drawbacks of a software-based approach is that adopting a deduplication feature could require an upgrade in backup application and/or client agents. Another factor is that deduplication may be processor-intensive and, when performed at the source application server, it may compete with and slow down apps. The scalability and performance of the media server performing deduplication could also be limiting factors. It will be important to investigate the upper limits of deduplication "pools" and performance capabilities for large volumes of data.
Hardware-based deduplication
Hardware-based deduplication is less disruptive; that is, it's seamless to deploy because it's compatible with any backup software and can be implemented quickly and easily. It typically leverages powerful, purpose-built storage appliances to accommodate processing of the entire (non-deduplicated) backup load either pre- or post-ingestion. Hardware-based solutions also have the advantage of processing data streams from multiple backup applications.
There are a few trade-offs to consider. More data than may be necessary traverses the network between the source system and target device (creating unnecessary congestion), as deduplication happens at the end of the data path. Depending on the solution, scalability could be another drawback. Some vendors are limited to single-node systems, which can result in multiple islands of deduplication and points of management, as well as underutilization in capacity per silo. Data streamed to a single-node system is only compared with other data directed to the node.
The goal of many target-side deduplication vendors is to deduplicate across clustered nodes. Global dedupe allows backup data to be deduplicated against all other backup data, regardless of which head actually receives the data. This capability is seen more often in software-based and grid architecture approaches, but may also be supported for target deduplication systems that replicate in a hub-and-spoke fashion (with global deduplication occurring at the hub). Global deduplication can result in higher deduplication ratios -- as data is deduplicated within and across backup sources -- and greater economies of scale with respect to operational overhead and capital costs.
Cost is a factor
Enterprise Strategy Group research has found that organizations are just as likely to purchase and implement data deduplication technology from backup software vendors as they are from disk/appliance hardware vendors. The top considerations when evaluating and selecting a data deduplication provider are cost, ease of integration, performance, ease of use and scalability, with cost clearly outranking the others. Now that deduplication is becoming a mainstream feature integrated in backup software, it will be interesting to see if "bolt on" deduplication systems can maintain their premium price.
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|2011-06-28, 13:46
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- no new OP/ED
- finally future gadget became usefull
- okarin tried to save mayuri of course
- if you think ep 12 was cruel then think again now
NO TECHNOVISION!!!!!! orz
basically ep 10 of certain magical girl is better
overall 8/10
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|2011-06-28, 14:01
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S;G 13 - Farewell to fear, farewell to sorrow
For the first time in several weeks, I have a Dr. Pepper (cherry) at my side, and the show enters its second half. The subtitle I gave might not seem to match...but in a way, it sort of does.
Mayuri was barely dead before Rintaro jumped into the past (twice! It works, so...congratulations on that, I suppose?). But the universe is really out to get them. Two time leaps, two times the same ending. The final scene of this episode was pretty well done, too - you don't need gore and blood splattering everywhere to make something gripping and scary. If anything, the lack of it makes it scarier. SERN may have eyes and ears and other organs around the city, but y'know, I still believe there's hope. Rintaro's crazy mad scientistness can break through everything. Time. Space. Foreshadowing.
The foreshadowing may be the toughest enemy of all.
|2011-06-28, 14:34
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... Ahem. So does this mean certain things can't be changed, even if you can alter the past? Whole akihabara changing and all that was possible by changing the past, and even going as far as changing Ruka's gender, but you can't change the fate of someone should they die? Or maybe SERN has something to do with her dying over and over and over again D:.
I hope they manage to get over this one way or another.. Having Mayuri dead for the following last 11 episodes is unacceptable.
Episode was pretty good, nice to see '' part-time soldier '' in action too. Only complaint is Kyouma himself. Your friend dies over and over again, and all you do is run all over the place? If you told about it to Kurisu, or Daru, they could come up with a plan.
Here's also a thought ; If Kyouma time leaped, then sent d-mail to the past to make it so that they never even made the microwave, wouldn't this save Mayuri from her inevitable death?
|2011-06-28, 14:46
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The time leap machine works, and yet despite taking measures to avoid Mayuri's death, SERN still killed her (MOEKA GOD DAMMIT), and mysteriously, she died a second time accidentally because of Nae. It seems like the universe is actively trying to kill Mayuri, not matter what Okabe does. Fate. Got so many Madoka vibes from this episode
Great episode.
|2011-06-28, 15:04
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Great episode!
I seriously laughed at Ruka's expression when Okabe told that he and Mayuri would go for a trip together Priceless.
One thing popped into my mind during this episode (even though I'm pretty surprised how Okabe managed to escape from SERN guys after Mayuri was ran over but I can accept that he just somehow managed to run away...) and that is why didn't Okabe just use the time leap twice in row? He'd get more time that way and it'd be much easier for them to escape.
Another thought. Even though it's pretty obvious that Okabe is in panic at the moment and can't think clearly, but why is he so ready to just leave the time machine stuff at lab? Not like SERN would use that equipment for some bad stuff right?
Also, I'd like Okabe to just talk to his friends... I am sure they could come up with some plan that'd save everyone. Suzuha could seriously help in this situation as she already knows what's going to happen... all Okabe needs to do is open the mouth and talk :P
|2011-06-28, 15:06
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You can bend the rules, but you can't break them I guess. The whole death cannot be cheated has been played over in most time travel stories. It reminded me of the Time Machine movie where the husband repeatedly travels to the past to save his wife from dying, but she ends up dying in a different way every time and he finally just had to accept it.
I still have hope that Suzuha will be the x-factor in saving Mayurii. He should have gone to her for help right away after the first leap.
|2011-06-28, 15:13
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Ahh, that was depressing. And really nerve-wracking too, all throughout the episode I was afraid that Mayuri is going to be killed, the suspense in the quiet scenes is scary. Okabe, Okabe, I know that you must really be in distraught (what's with triple kill in one episode - actually, four if you count Kurisu as well) but you really shouldn't do it by yourself. Sure the police may not believe you, but there's Kurisu. She definitely understands everything, and her calm and rational approach will really help. Also, the all around badassness of Suzuha will be a great asset as well, not to mention she knows the most about SERN. I wish he'll realize this by next week.
I suppose now we know why Suzuha ran down, it's to set up the CRT to enable the time leap. I wonder though, how far can the time leap go? Because it seems Okarin went to the same time there. Also, I doubt SERN agents will be as young as Nae(remember kids, NEVER EVER run or play near the platform), so it's less SERN and more the universe or fate determined that Mayuri will die.
But the key point here, one that is illustrated will all the deja vu and the toy train, is that with a time leap the worldline stays the same, the world line in which Mayuri Shiina will inevitably die. As such, I predict that now they have to change the world line, doing so by using the microwave. I don't know how they're going to use the two machines together, but I hope they can manage to do it, for Mayuri sake.
The wait for next week is going to be very long...
|2011-06-28, 15:15
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No new op and ed...
This episode.. really tortures me.. first they had to replay the footage from last episode when Mayuri got shot and then we had two repeats of Mayuri's deaths in two different forms (wtf Moeka ramming her down with a car!). The last one was really painful to watch even though I knew how it's going to end up and it caused two victims... poor little Nae.
Use the D-mail to move to another world-line Okabe?..
|2011-06-28, 15:24
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I think the whole point of the episode might be that if you don't create a new world line the universe will just fix itself in other ways, to prevent the paradox. The paradox not being that Mayuri didn't die, but that Okabe went back. Okabe needs to realize he's in a paradox: if he saves Mayuri he won't have a reason to go back and save her so Mayuri will die, which now means he would go back to save her… (going by the show's logic the world lines themselvs are immutable)
|2011-06-28, 15:29
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Steins;Gate is definitely in full swing now. Intensity at max levels.
I really find Okabe's relationship with Mayuri to be heart warming. You can really feel how bad Okabe wants to protect his dear childhood friend.
Now as if it wasn't bad enough that they tore open a wound last episode, they had to pour salt all over it too. Oh gosh .
I think the speculation about using a combination of the D-mail with the new gadget is what's going to be needed.
Okabe needs a change of plan though.
I'm still trying to factor in how Kurisu dies in the first episode fits in all this. I really do wonder if it was Okabe who killed her .
|2011-06-28, 15:30
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I don't think Suzahu ran down to turn the tv on initially. I think she's been torn all series long about how much she should interfere. Sometimes she can't help it, like her outburst concerning Kurisu, and yet the very act of restraint on her part despite the venom she bears towards Kurisu would indicate she's trying hard not to change the timeline too much willy nilly. I suspect she has a very specific reason for traveling back in time, and isn't actually supposed to do anything else out of fears of contaminating the timeline. I think this was just one of those times where she likely intended to leave, but couldn't bear leaving them to their fate, so turned the tv on and came back.
Okarin is not the brightest lightbulb on the planet, that's for sure. One would think the last place you want for Mayuri to be is by his side, seeing as he's their target. His refusal to explain what's going on doesn't help things either. I do hope there's more to this story than another 10+ episodes of him repeatedly "killing" Mayuri despite his attempts. It's been a great series, but I'd be disappointed if this is all that it climaxes to.
I'm also not sure if Moeka is with SERN or not. She says, "SERN will take the time machine", which is a bit ambiguous. For all we know, she could be anti-SERN and in her own bizarre way be there to kidnap/kill them so SERN doesn't get them. I guess my problem with automatically assuming she's with SERN is why would she be looking for an IBN 5100 if she was? One would think SERN employees wouldn't need to look for one.
Still have no idea why certain things stop. Like the sand in the hourglass or Mayuri's watch. They made sure to show the sand flowing in this episode so you didn't have any doubts that it had stopped last episode or that Myuri's watch had simply malfunctioned.
It also seems like there is another person off-screen on the roof with Suzahu. That person's motives would also seem to fall under the same arguments as Suzahu's though. Which returns us to Okarin or some unknown third party. If we assume it was Okarin, it's possible his talking to Kurisu first was simply a warning that he bungles badly since he's not the best conversationalist. Then, that scream that sounds a lot like him coming from the direction of Kurisu's corpse could have been him summoning his "courage" to do the deed. Could it be at some point he comes to the conclusion that whatever summation of troubles occurred so far and will occur in the near future can all be averted by killing Kurisu? I have a hard time believing that, but then again, Suzahu seems to have quite the foreknowledge concerning what Kurisu might do, so I think it's possible. I'm just not sure how we go from the Kurisu we know to some future Kurisu who screws everyone over.
All of this, of course, begs the question: If Okarin travelled back in time to the date of the first episode, how does the timeline work? The timeline shifted in that episode remember? Does that mean that if one was to travel back in time prior to that "shift", it would be the previous timeline where Kurisu was murdered, or the same timeline you shifted to in which she wasn't? Logic would indicate it has to be the latter, which then makes this very complicated as that would seem there's no way for present day Okarin to return to that timeline in which she was killed, which means whatever happened to Kurisu and whoever was involved, was all part of a timeline prior to this story even taking place. ie: In a pre-show timeline, Okarin develops a timemachine, shit happens, and eventually he decides to travel back in time to kill Kurisu.
Anyways, interested to see if I'm just thinking things through too much and it turns out you CAN travel back to a timeline you shifted from, and episode one turns out to be the last episode as we circle back to it, or if it's just something that already occurred in a long series of time shifts, and the animated story of Steins;Gate is just a snapshot in the middle of them all (or the end).
Edit: Lastly, did we ever get confirmation that you have to send memories back to yourself? Or would it be possible to send them to anyone in the past and overwrite them so you could be...Okarin in Kurisu's body or something equally perverted?
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|2011-06-28, 15:31
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Though I do wonder really why didn't Okabe then leap 48 hours, not just 3 hours.
^The IBN 5100 is a threat to SERN as it allows to decrypt something on their servers.. or something. It doesn't allow time leap or anything like that. That's probably why Moeka wanted it - If we assume she's SERN agent, she was probably ordered to get her hands on it. I do wonder what is this FB though. She seemed hesistant to shoot Mayuri (or is it just me?) but kept saying '' For the FB '' or something like that, and then did it.
|2011-06-28, 15:35
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Considering that the idea of brain washing was given to us earlier, I'd have to wonder if Moeka is simply a target of this brain washing or is really a spy.
In regards to telling people about everything... Well you're short on time, and it would be pretty difficult to believe Okabe about all the things that are happening no? I can see why he doesn't want to spare time to try and save Mayuri considering he is in a panic at the moment. However, it should be clear to him now that there's more than just trying to get Mayuri away it regards to preventing her fate.
|2011-06-28, 15:45
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|2011-06-28, 15:55
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This is that Time Machine remake movie all over again... There is still hope here, however, since the same rules of time travel don't apply (time was linear in this movie, the hero of the Time Machine couldn't save his wife because the death of his wife is the reason he created the time machine in the first place; saving his wife would create a paradox). I'm actually not sure why Mayuri can't be saved, so far it seemed like the world line could be greatly altered to accommodate any changes. At any rate, the first episode itself proves it is possible to prevent a person's death, so I'm sure Mayuri will be saved. Maybe you have to sacrifice a life to save another, which means that for Mayuri to survive, someone else needs to die. My vote goes to Moeka.
I don't get why Okabe only went a few hours back and didn't make use of the full extent of the time leap's capabilities. A 48 hours window would make it easier to save Mayuri and the others, although as the end of the episode showed us, Mayuri seems destined to die at a set hour no matter what.
Anyway, I hope we won't get to see her die every episode, firstly because it shatters my poor heart, and secondly because it'll get boring.
As for the hourglass, I haven't really paid attention to it, does it mysteriously stop or does it stop simply because it runs out of sand? If it's the latter, I'll say it's just there for symbolism, like the watch.
It might be nothing, but something caught my attention: did female Ruka use the male pronoun (boku) to refer to herself in past episodes? She did in this one. If she did that earlier too, disregard that.
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