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Brendan DeMelle | March 30, 2012
By Brendan DeMelle • Friday, March 30, 2012 - 13:19
General Motors is breaking up with the Heartland Institute, announcing recently that the company will discontinue funding to the notorious climate-denying spin shop.
The move by GM comes in direct response to a national outreach campaign organized by Forecast the Facts, which garnered more than 20,000 people, including 10,000 GM vehicle owners, calling on GM to drop its financial support of the Heartland Institute.
"We applaud GM's decision and the message it sends: that it is no longer acceptable for corporations to promote the denial of climate change, and that support for an organization like Heartland is not in line with GM's values. This victory belongs to the 20,000 Americans, including 10,000 GM owners, who demanded that GM put its money where its mouth is on climate change and sustainability," said Forecast the Facts Campaign Director Daniel Souweine.
Climate One director Greg Dalton revealed the GM pullout after receiving confirmation directly from GM during an event at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club. Dalton had pressed GM CEO Dan Akerson about its support for Heartland at a Climate One event earlier this month. Akerson said at the time that he would personally review the Heartland funding.
Heartland President Joseph Bast was understandably upset to learn of GM's decision to cease any further financial support, but continued to push his trusty shiny penny version of events rather than own up to the real reasons for the waning support of his group's efforts. Internal Heartland documents made public last month exposed the shocking revelation of Heartland's plans to deceive schoolchildren about climate science, most notably.
Huffington Post's Sharon Silke Carty adds that:
GM was not the only automaker to fund the Heartland Institute: Ford and Chrysler also contributed to it in the past. Ford and Chrysler told The Huffington Post that they had stopped funding the organization over the past decade, but neither automaker had records detailing reasons for pulling that support.
It seems the Heartland Institute will have to continue relying on its "Anonymous Donor" in order to keep up its desperate attacks on climate change science and scientists.
Most of its past corporate sponsors, including Koch Industries, have jumped ship from funding Heartland's climate denial efforts. Add Detroit's major car companies to the list of heart-breakers as well.
Good Good News
Just in time for a beer on Friday.
Ghandi quote in reverse
Eventually, Heartland and other denialist organizations will follow Ghandi's famous quote in reverse:
First you win, then they fight you, then they laugh at you, then they ignore you.
Unfortunately, we have only entered stage 2 for many of them … But it is only a matter of time. If we only had more of that though.
Note that "leadership" here came from GM. That means to me that we need to convince more of the big players such as them to reverse course, then shout it from the rooftops. Marginalizing denialists works (aka stage 4).
Great news!
Yes that is really good news and well done GM for taking this stance. Although, for all we know, GM has simply redirected money into places like CATO because Heartland is now tarnished and has the spotlight on it.
For the Wattsian/Hill/Nova deniers who insisted deniergate/denialgate had all blown over and was a non event, keep dreamin. Well done desmog.
Alex Jones?
Sourcing Alex Jones for info……nice, what next David Icke? It's all about the lizard people.
Curious approach you guys have.
Windy was just saying that all the deniers say global warming is happening.
In fact Lintzen is now arguing that its just not as severe (and backing up his claims with falsified data).
And you are using a totally different style of claim. Interesting. You must be really steeped in double think to keep chugging on as you do.
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The only mention of racism in
The only mention of racism in the link they had to an article describing her talk was this:
"…In many discussions in the last 30 years, climate change has been seen as either a hoax or fixable with minimal political or economic intervention, said Norgaard, author of the book "Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions and Everyday Life" (2011, MIT Press). "This kind of cultural resistance to very significant social threat is something that we would expect in any society facing a massive threat," she said. The discussion, she said, is comparable to what happened with challenges to racism or slavery in the U.S. South…"
The word "sickness" was not used in the article but "treated" was used once:
"Resistance at individual and societal levels must be recognized and treated before real action can be taken to effectively address threats facing the planet from human-caused contributions to climate change…"
Full Disclosure is the Solution to the Pollution.
Requiring all non-profits to quarterly disclose all major donors would go a long way towards exposing & vaporizing financial support for anti-science denial.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – After opening its season with wins over the Naval Academy in four of five events in the Johnson Cup, including the varsity eight, the Yale lightweight rowing team will return to the friendly waters of the Housatonic to race at home for the first time this year on Saturday. The lightweights will compete with M.I.T. for the Joy Cup, with Georgetown as an invited guest for the fourth year running.
Like the Bulldogs, both M.I.T. and Georgetown have raced once already this season. M.I.T. began its season on March 29th, finishing behind both Princeton and Navy in the varsity and freshman eights. Last Saturday, Georgetown squared off against Princeton and Columbia in competition for the Fosburgh Cup on Lake Carnegie in Princeton. Though falling to the Tigers in all four events, the Hoyas defeated Columbia in the varsity eight by nearly 10 seconds.
At last year's Joy Cup regatta, Yale won all five races against M.I.T. and Georgetown, as a strong headwind and considerable chop on the Charles River resulted in atypically slow times. In the varsity eight, Yale edged Georgetown for a .9-second win, finishing in a time of 6:53.6, with M.I.T. back in 7:11.3. Though Yale has won the Joy Cup consistently since 1979, Georgetown won the varsity race the last time it was held on the Housatonic, in 2009.
Prior to last week's racing, the USRowing lightweight men's eight poll had Georgetown ranked No. 4 with Yale at No. 6. M.I.T. is ranked No. 11.
Competition begins at 9:00 a.m. In addition to the lightweight racing, the Yale heavyweights will race Dartmouth.
Race Schedule
9 a.m. Heavyweight Third Varsity Eight
9:20 a.m. Lightweight First Freshman Eight
9:40 a.m. Heavyweight First Freshman Eight
10 a.m. Lightweight Second Varsity Eight
10:20 a.m. Heavyweight Second Varsity Eight
10:40 a.m. Lightweight Varsity Eight-The Joy Cup
11 a.m. Heavyweight Varsity Eight-The Olympic Axe
11:20 a.m. Lightweight Second Freshman and Fourth Varsity Eights
11:40 a.m. Heavyweight Second Freshman and Fourth Varsity Eights
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Paris: France faces a sixth day of national protests on Tuesday against President Nicolas Sarkozy`s pensions reform, with the stakes rising after youths battled riot police and filling stations ran dry.
Tuesday`s coordinated protest is the latest in a series of mounting actions against Sarkozy`s plan to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62, and follows days of strikes, skirmishes and full-blown street marches.
On Monday police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at youths who set a car on fire, smashed bus stops and hurled rocks outside a school in Nanterre, near Paris, blocked by students protesting the pensions reform.
Youths threw petrol bombs at police outside a school in another Paris suburb, Combes-la-Ville, police said. In Lyon, hooded youngsters burned at least three cars they had overturned during clashes with riot police.
The Interior Ministry said police arrested 290 rioters in various towns, and that four police officers had been injured in the scuffles.
Nearly 300 schools were disrupted by protests, officials said, and cities across France saw students take part in fresh street demonstrations, several of which saw police arresting rampaging youths.
Meanwhile, truck drivers also joined the movement that has brought millions onto the streets in recent weeks, and rubbish continued to pile up in the streets of Marseille due to a strike by collectors.
"We now need to block the economy to force the government to withdraw its plan," said Vincent Duse, a CGT union leader at an auto factory in Mulhouse.
Truckers staged go-slows on motorways near Paris and several provincial cities, drivers blocked access to goods supply depots and joined oil workers blocking fuel depots to defend their right to retire at 60.
Production at all France`s oil refineries remained shut down since last week, causing hundreds of filling stations to run dry, industry associations said.
The government announced it had activated an emergency crisis cell charged with maintaining fuel supplies.
"We will stay here as long as we can," said the CFDT`s Joseph Sieiro, one of the hundred people, most of them truckers, who turned up to block an oil terminal at Port-La-Nouvelle in southern France.
Further disruption was due on Tuesday, the sixth coordinate national action in less than two months.
Half of all flights to and from Paris Orly airport and 30 percent of flights at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle and other French airports will be cancelled due to Tuesday`s strikes, aviation officials said.
The government has so far shown no sign of backing down and Sarkozy vowed on Monday that the reform will pass.
"This reform is essential. France is committed to it. France will carry it out," he told reporters.
Unions want to force Sarkozy to abandon a bill to raise the minimum retirement age to 62, which is in the final days of its journey through a Parliament in which the right-wing leader enjoys a comfortable majority.
Sarkozy has staked his credibility on the bill, but unions are hoping for a repeat of 1995, when Jacques Chirac`s government backed down on pension reform after a paralysing transport strike.
The government has shown no sign of backing down on the reform, currently being examined by the Senate, which on Monday pushed back the final vote until at least Thursday with hundreds of amendments still to be debated.
Most French back the current protests, with a poll published Monday in the popular Le Parisien daily showing that 71 percent of those asked expressed either support or sympathy.
"It is perfectly normal and natural that this (reform) causes worries and opposition," Sarkozy told reporters in Deauville, western France, where he was due to hold a summit with Russia and Germany.
"It is also normal and natural that a democratic government... should ensure motorists can find fuel and that there are no clashes."
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The economic downturn that has been a hardship for Americans has had a greater impact on the elderly in Cuba, who increasingly struggle to fend for themselves, according to members of a Miami-based charitable foundation. "It is a well-known fact that the people in Cuba have been suffering extreme poverty as part of their daily living for decades, and the conditions are currently worse than ever," said Fernando Garcia-Chacon, a Coral Gables resident and president of the Cuban Association of the Order of Malta, which supports mission projects and charitable outreach in several Caribbean and Central American countries as well as in Miami. Financial hardship in the Miami area translates into worse hardship in Cuba, where many depend on cash remittances from family abroad to help making ends meet. Cubans with no such outside help are finding it hard to put food on the table with Cuba's local economy in stagnation. "People with relatives in Cuba know these facts and they want to give something back to these poor communities," said Garcia-Chacon, born and raised in Havana, whose family founded a small town named Santa Maria del Rosario in the outskirts of Havana. They also were active members of the Knights of Malta for many generations. In 2011 especially, the Malta Knights and Ladies explored firsthand the situation of the elderly and poor in towns throughout Cuba. For Garcia-Chacon, the pilgrimage was his second trip back to Cuba since leaving in 1961. "In Cuba, the elderly are very poor, same as everyone else in the island." he said. "Our soup kitchens are for people 70 years of age or greater, and of course there is a lot of turnover." Only very impoverished seniors can access these programs, he said, which offer breakfast and lunch five days a week, he said. "At times, we also send them away with food for the weekend. When possible we have a place for them to watch television, play dominoes or provide a simple service like a haircut."The association is hoping to find a means to double the number of senior citizen support centers in Cuba, including a medical component to support medical care for elderly with diabetes. In late October, the association will host its annual White Cross Ball, with Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, president of the Rome-based Caritas Internationalis, as guest of honor.
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Tricks of the Trade (Japanese: ソーナンスとポケモンこうかんかい!! Sonans and the Pokémon Swap Meet!!) is the 146th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on May 4, 2000 and in the United States on March 24, 2001.
|Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.
At the Pokémon Swap Meet, our heroes befriend a young Pokémon trainer who's having difficulties finding a trading partner willing to accept his Wobbuffet. When Jessie inadvertently deposits her Pokéball across from his in the exchanger, this young trainer gets more than he had bargained for.
Ash, Misty, and Brock are walking down the beach when they see a young Trainer and his Wobbuffet. Ash looks it up on his Pokédex and the boy introduces himself as Benny. He says that he is going to the Pokémon Swap Meet to find someone to trade his Wobbuffet to. Misty wonders why he would want to trade his Pokémon and Benny says he likes Wobbuffet and has trained him hard but now he wants a different Pokémon.
Meanwhile, James is squirting water at his Victreebel while Jessie is with her Lickitung. Meowth says they should go and see if they could steal some Pokémon, but, unbeknownst to them, Snubbull is following them.
The gang is walking down the road when a herd of Tauros comes running by. One of the townspeople says that this is one of the events that happen every year at the Swap Meet, and that anyone who touches one of the Tauros's horns gets a trophy from the mayor. Ash tries, but gets scared and moves out of the way. He then says maybe he'll try next year. All of the Tauros run into a stadium and begin a huge battling competition. Ash wants to participate, so he calls Professor Oak and exchanges his Heracross for Tauros. A Tauros Trainer named Fernando was about to be declared the winner of the competition when Ash jumped from the stands and challenged him. After a short battle Fernando's Tauros lost and Ash was declared the winner of the competition. Afterward, Benny is trying to find Ash to trade his Wobbuffet for Ash's Tauros. Several other Trainers are swarming around Ash and offering him trades, but Ash says he could never trade his Tauros. Benny realizes that Ash would never trade one of his Pokémon away. Benny walks around, trying to find a trade partner, but with no luck. Ash and Brock come along and decide to help him. They make a deal with a Trainer with a Stantler.
Meanwhile, Team Rocket is running a fake trade machine that swaps full Poké Balls for empty ones. James is walking around and finds a man selling a Magikarp. He remembers him but by then it's too late and the salesman has run off with his money. He gives chase but Jessie gets in the way and is sent flying towards the real trading machine. The man with the Stantler changed his mind because he really wanted a flying type and runs off. Jessie falls and hits her head on the machine as the Poké Ball containing Lickitung flies out of her pocket and lands on the machine. The Poké Ball exchanges with Benny's but Jessie isn't looking. She grabs the Poké Ball and runs off.
People have started to suspect their machine is a fake so Team Rocket reveals themselves and ties everyone up. Team Rocket jumps into their balloon and begins to float away. Ash tells everyone to use their Tauros to attack the balloon. Team Rocket blasts off, leaving a sack behind. A Trainer uses his Scyther to free everyone, and they open the sack, only to find the Poké Balls are all empty. Ash and friends go to find Team Rocket and get the Pokémon back.
Ash, Brock and Misty arrive at the spot where Team Rocket is. Ash challenges Team Rocket to a battle. He sends out Chikorita and Jessie sends out what she thinks is Lickitung, but is actually Wobbuffet (the gang assumes this is actually a different Wobbuffet to Benny's). Chikorita uses Vine Whip and Razor Leaf but Wobbuffet uses a powerful Counter and knocks out Chikorita. Ash then sends out Pikachu who uses a Thunderbolt, which Wobbuffet cannot Counter due to it being a special attack. This subsequently sends Team Rocket blasting off, leaving the Poké Balls behind.
Back at the Swap Meet, the gang returns the Poké Balls to the Trainers. Benny runs up to them with Lickitung, and explains that he was able to trade Wobbuffet for it with a lady but she ran off and he can't find her to thank her. The gang (not piecing together that Benny actually traded with Jessie) thinks she must have gone home for the day. Benny calls out to her to thank her and asks her to take good care of Wobbuffet.
Meanwhile, Team Rocket is hanging on a branch with Wobbuffet as they realize that, no matter how it happened, they have a new member. Meowth tells Jessie she'll have to look after Wobbuffet now, as she despairs over having being landed with such an unusual Pokémon.
Major events
- Ash sends his Heracross to Professor Oak's lab in return for one of his Tauros.
- James meets the Magikarp salesman again.
- Jessie accidentally trades her Lickitung for Benny's Wobbuffet.
- For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the timeline of events.
Pokémon debuts
- Ash
- Misty
- Brock
- Jessie
- James
- Professor Oak
- Magikarp salesman
- Benny
- Fernando
- Citizens
Who's That Pokémon?: Wooper (US and international), Wobbuffet (Japan)
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Togepi (Misty's)
- Wobbuffet (Benny's; traded to Jessie; debut)
- Tauros (Ash's)
- Chikorita (Ash's)
- Psyduck (Misty's)
- Victreebel (James's)
- Lickitung (Jessie's; traded to Benny)
- Snubbull (Madame Muchmoney's)
- Magikarp (Magikarp salesman's)
- Magikarp (James's; flashback)
- Tauros (Fernando's)
- Butterfree
- Raticate (×2)
- Raichu
- Sandslash
- Nidorina
- Nidorino
- Wigglytuff
- Oddish
- Venonat
- Primeape
- Machoke
- Bellsprout
- Golem
- Slowpoke
- Farfetch'd
- Doduo
- Drowzee
- Krabby
- Voltorb
- Exeggutor
- Rhyhorn
- Chansey
- Starmie
- Scyther
- Tauros (multiple)
- Sentret
- Hoothoot
- Ledyba
- Mareep
- Bellossom
- Marill
- Hoppip
- Sunflora
- Quagsire
- Pineco
- Gligar
- Scizor
- Donphan
- Stantler
- Blissey
- The Tauros competition at the beginning of the episode is loosely based on the traditional Spanish Encierro de Toros, or Running of the Bulls.
- The book Prize Pokémon is based on this episode.
- This episode marks the second time a main anime character has traded a Pokémon. The first time was in Battle Aboard the St. Anne!, where Ash traded his Butterfree to a Gentleman for a Raticate, but soon traded back.
- A Trainer who wanted to trade an Onix for Ash's Tauros had the same voice as Brock.
- A Trainer who offers to trade a Mareep for Misty's Psyduck bears a resemblance to Tracey.
- One of the Trainers offered to trade Ash a Rhyhorn for his Tauros. Rhyhorn was the Pokémon Ash was trying to catch when he instead caught his second Tauros.
- In this episode, Team Rocket uses a variation of their motto.
- This episode is featured on Pokémon All-Stars: Wobbuffet from Magna Pacific's Pokémon All-Stars series.
- Sentret's ears in one scene are colored light-brown instead of the normal dark-brown.
- At the Pokémon Swap Meet, a Doduo is seen with necks the same color as its legs. While female Doduo have necks of this color, gender differences were not introduced for another six years.
- The Magikarp salesman tells James that if he sells each of the 1 billion for 100 dollars, he would have 10 billion dollars. He would actually have 100 billion dollars.
- When Ash challenges Fernando with his Tauros, he does not have his backpack. Later on, when Ash orders his Tauros to use Take Down a second time, Pikachu is seen on Ash's shoulder, even though he wasn't there before. When Ash is declared the winner of the competition, he has his bag and Pikachu has disappeared.
- The Poké Ball that contains Ash's Tauros is a regular Poké Ball rather than a Safari Ball.
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|Търговски трикове
|Mandarin Chinese
|Výměnný bazar
|De Kneepjes van het Vak
|European French
|Échanges et mélanges
|Die Pokémon-Tauschbörse
|?רוצה להתחלףrotzé lehitchalef?
|सौदे का मौका Saude ka Mauka *
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I trucchi del mestiere*
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|Os Truques do Negócio
|Truques do Ofício
|Trucurile Schimburilor
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|¡Bazar de intercambio!
|Engaños en el intercambio
|This episode article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of the Pokémon anime.
- Original series episodes
- Episodes written by Yukiyoshi Ōhashi
- Episodes storyboarded by Kiyotaka Itani
- Episodes directed by Yūji Asada
- Episodes animated by Masaaki Iwane
- Episodes in which a main character obtains a new Pokémon
- Episodes in which a main character trades away a Pokémon
- Episodes focusing on Wobbuffet


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Best Kids Parties: Mickey Mouse Science Clubhouse
Name: Kaya, 3 & Kiana, 6
Location: Vancouver, BC
This year, Kiana and Kaya had Mickey Mouse Science Clubhouse birthday party. As usual, we went a little over the top with the details.
Every child received a welcome package upon arrival – Mickey Mouse ears and a white lab coat, complete with name tag. The two birthday girls each had custom-made lab coats with their names embroidered above the pocket. They looked adorable!
We created a feature wall as a backdrop for the two (yes, TWO) birthday cakes and the custom cake pops. The feature wall was super bright and colourful, and really easy to create! It was simply made of circle cut-outs, star shaped Post-It notes, pinwheels and paper poms. A few fresh flowers in science-type vases and some helium filled balloons finished off the look.
We kept the food really simple and child friendly: egg salad sandwiches, chicken salad sandwiches, pasta salad, tomato-bocconcini salad, and an assortment of fruits and veggies to snack on. We also created custom H2O labels for the water bottles, and made Jello with gummy worms in little beakers.
The beautiful cakes were custom designed and hand-painted, and were as delicious as they were beautiful.
For entertainment, we hired a scientist to do some demonstrations with the kids. He was a HIT! The kids especially loved making slime, watching the rocket launch, and making cotton candy. At the end of the party, the kids took home their loot bags (custom monogrammed mini-totes containing bug-catching equipment and specimen jar, NERDS in a petri dish, a test tube full of candy, and bubbles).
All in all, it was a fun-filled day.
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- Coordination, Decor & Design by Lé Petite Soirées
- Cake by Anna Elizabeth Cakes
- Cake Pops by Sweet Pea Goods
- Entertainment: Mad Science
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Cross-Realm Dungeon Feature Coming Soon
Blizzard hardly needs to make this a paid service, you'd think they have enough money to do one good thing for free, but nope...
The idea is very good and hopefully they'll back away with the required payment.
With all these new premium features they should cut the subscription in half.
World of Warcraft has turned into a F2P, only that here you need to pay for the updates -and- the monthly subscription.


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- United States Grand Prix - FP2
Tyre issues limit Schumacher in FP2
- Race:
- United States Grand Prix
- Drivers:
- Michael Schumacher
- Teams:
- Mercedes
Michael Schumacher's Friday practice for the US Grand Prix was compromised by tyre issues in the second session that limited his useful running.
Each driver had an extra set of prime compound tyres available during Friday practice on top of the usual allocation of two primes and one set of options. However, when it came to second practice, Schumacher revealed that issues with two sets meant he had to go back to using his extra set of tyres from first practice.
"We had a bit of a difficulty because we lost both sets of tyres for us; one delaminated and one had a puncture," he said. "So we only had the tyres that we finally ran on from this morning. Obviously that compromised as well our session to work the car so we will have to see what it means."
He said the new circuit had been a bit of a "shock" in first practice as he approached some of the blind corners.
"The track is pretty much a challenge, a nice layout and very interesting. It's very different sitting in a Formula One car compared to when you walk around or go with scooter, simply for the fact that you are sitting low in an F1 car and the vision is compromised. That was a bit of a shock the first lap out, but once you get into the track and you know where the corners are and how they are it's better, but still it remains a challenge."
And Schumacher believes all drivers were struggling with a snappy balance on the slippery surface.
"It's a very odd balance that you get from the track because you have understeer on the way in and suddenly it snaps and goes to oversteer. Everybody seems to struggle with this or just pure understeer and it's easy to overdo. Going just a little bit off line means no grip and going off line."


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This game mashes up the standard Ganesha Games mechanics with a movement system riffing on Wings or War/Star Wars X-Wing. They pair up nicely and it looks pretty cool. But there are a number of weird inconsistencies, especially when trying to build you own ships. Weapons are pre-built, which I don't mind, there is a fair amount of variety there. The weapon tags are described early in the book, and the available weapons are build on there later in the book. But while there is a Turret weapon quality, there is no weapon that actually possesses that quality, meaning that no ship you build can fire except from of its front arc. Then there there is stuff like the 'Heavily-Armed' ship quality. Over in the ship qualities section, it says that this costs 8 points to add to a ship. But over in weapons and missiles you can also buy a pod that's only effect is to add that quality to a ship. That pod costs 12 points (10 for the pod, 2 for the hard point to mount it on). Why are there two prices for the same thing?
Despite a neat mash-up of mechanics and an interesting structured campaign, there are lots of oddities, ambiguities, and omissions in the book which made it a disappointing purchase for me.
This is a real basic game, purely descriptive. Die rolling is barely a thing, the modifiers are several times larger than the die rolls. All 100+ powers are on 12 pages, nearly half the book. Each power has a 2-3 line description. It's fairly exhaustive, but it's easy to make your own. The sample character write ups are similarly small, one line of stat(s), one line description. It's neat for a narrative one shot, but lacking in depth nothing in the game is described in more than two or three lines. It's too simple to be elegant, but then again, it's one dollar.
If you want to do a little something with superheros, but not much, perhaps a one-shot campaign, a bizarre flash forward or drug induced hallucination session in your normal game, then this is well worth the dollar. If you are looking for some new or exciting element, it's not here though.
I know space is cold and empty, but there's no reason this game has to be the same. The much vaunted cue system isn't really a system, just a list of (admittedly) good one liners. I was looking for a rules lite game, but this takes it one step further. If you're up for that, great, enjoy it. I wasn't quite prepared for it and got disappointed.
Awesome. Does lots of cool things with the system. Skill caps make low level characters differ on skills a lot without barring untrained use completely. Someone without ranks in a skill can never get more than 15 on a check while a first level master can get a result of up to 30. A talented amateur can no longer outshine the supposed master. Skills have been expanded to include all the good modern stuff. They've also been defined quite well so every situation is covered pretty well. Everything from skydiving (standard, HI/LO and base jumping) to bribery.
The classes are awesome and great for making a team worthy of any action movie. Almost any combo of classes will make a viable team.
The feats are just awesome. There are fighting feats for everything. Whip style feat is even good. And the shotgun style feat is called 'This . . . is my Boomstick'
The chase system from the previous edition has been expanded to cover brainwashing, interrogation, hacking, infiltration and manhunts. It abstracts and covers each of the situations quite well.
The rest of it's great too, great gear system, more gear, fluid initiative, origins, it's all awesome. Buy this.
Interesting mechanical system for changing the world the characters live in, but character creation is an exercise in risk management. Play it safe and you're character will suck, risk too much and your character will die during creation. Personally, I'm not a fan, but an interesting read anyway.
Great story but scan seems to be incomplete, missing some of the lists to help actually pull the game off. Still possible, just harder.
Has an interesting mechanic for taking mental actions in combat at the same time as the physical stuff, but looks pretty complex. There really is absolutely no setting included, which makes it really hard to get an idea of the game. If you're going to buy this then buy the GM guide too or don't bother.
This book has the least imaginitive system ever created. Character creation is completely random and everything is resolved through coin flips or rock-paper-scissors.
But the setting in here is better than Freedom City or anything else I've seen. They even provide a campaign 5 adventures long, complete with a pretty good teist ending. The sugessted hooks in here are actually good, useful, creative ideas. Just convert the villains to some other system (I used Mutants and Masterminds) and you have a really cool campaign setting.
AND there is a section that mimics a 'Mystery in a Box' party where the guests come as superheroes disguised as thier alter egos and one of them is a super villian. It's great fun.
The only reason this dosn't get 5 stars from me is that they obviously spent so much time on the setting, why oh why did they ignore the system. Ah well, I still think it was well worth my $10
Eh, it was a interesting concept with some interesting rules, but it just didn't seem complete somehow. Cool? Yes. Scary? Yes. Playable? Barely. Worth the $3? Maybe.

LIKED: Cool concept and original rules.

DISLIKED: Not nearly enough. All you get is a little meat and a smattering of flavor. It just leaves you wanting more.

QUALITY: Disappointing

VALUE: Disappointed


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Before the New York State Thruway Authority receives a waiver from the Federal Highway Administration for repayment of previously received federal aid, Congressman Brian Higgins is telling the authority to return the favor to local residents and waive collection of the 15-cent toll charged at the Williamsville toll barrier.
"After more than a decade of study and after burning through $6 million in taxpayer support, the Authority owes it to the driving public in Western New York to do better than what they have proposed," Higgins wrote in a letter to NYSTA Executive Director Thomas Madison.
The Thruway Authority is preparing to ask FHWA to waive the repayment of $6 million in federal aid, which was spent on toll relocation studies. Relocation discussions are currently at a stall while the Authority undertakes pilot studies that look at a potential system-wide conversion to a cashless system. Upgrades to the barriers in Williamsville to improve traffic flow are also underway.
In addition to providing relief to local drivers, Higgins argues eliminating the 15-cent toll would advance ongoing efforts to reduce congestion and make Main Street in Williamsville a more walkable community.
"You may be aware that officials in the Village of Williamsville are working to make their Main Street business district more pedestrian-friendly," he said. "While they are making tangible progress in this regard, their success will be constrained unless the issue of excess traffic resulting from toll evasion is addressed."
Under Higgins' proposal, vehicles with EZ-Pass, travelling between exits 49 and 50, would not be charged the 15-cent toll. The congressman points to precedent, noting that tolls are waived along small stretches of the Thruway in other regions of the state. Vehicles in the Albany area, which use Exit 25A and exits 24, 25 or 26, are not assessed a toll.
"It is important that the public receive significant tangible improvements in return for their substantial investments in the toll relocation study," Higgins wrote. "The elimination of this toll ... would make the forgiveness of the Authority's obligation to repay the federal government more palatable."
Higginsled the fight to stop toll collection on the I-190 in Buffalo in 2006 and more recently won approval of an amendment to block a study to create a new federal toll along the U.S.' northern border with Canada.


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Mickey Bielski speaking at the International Holocaust Remembrance Day Program at The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida, January 27, 2018.
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day is January 27, 2018. The day commemorates the great losses of the Holocaust and was chosen by the United Nations in recognition of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp.
To commemorate this day, the Holocaust Center will host a special presentation discussion with Mickey Bielski on Sunday, January 28. Mickey's father, Tuvia Bielski, was the leader of the Bielski Brothers, an organization of Jewish partisans who formed an armed brigade and fought against the Nazi's and their collaborators.
Listen as Mickey Bielski and Holocaust survivors remember Tuvia Bielski's leadership which led to the saving of 1,200 Jewish lives, during the Holocaust.


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Though Cyprus accounts for only around 0.2 per cent of the combined output of the 17 European Union countries that use the euro, the tax on depositors has stoked fears of bank runs in other troubled European economies.
Since the European debt crisis began in late 2009, savers have been spared.
The bailout of Cyprus, agreed to early Saturday, foresees a 6.75 per cent levy on deposits below Euro 100,000 ($130,860) rising to 9.9 per cent on those above.
In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was down 0.8 per cent at 6,439 while Germany's DAX fell 1.1 per cent to 7,954. The CAC-40 in France was 1.3 per cent lower at 7,945. Cyprus' stock exchange is closed for a bank holiday.
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Since it was originally compiled more than 20 years ago, and later expanded in three major updates, The Answers Book has been a top-seller among modern apologetic works.
The main thesis of Francis Collins' new book, The Language of God, is that you can be a credible scientist and a Christian by believing in theistic evolution.
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Let us take a closer look at Dan Brown's popular novel, the soon-to-be-released movie of the same name, and their possible impact on the church and culture.
Catholic bishops of England, Wales and Scotland recently published their study book, "The Gift of Scripture." Does the book presume authority to be based on the Bible, or something else?
Bible-believing scientists who lived before Charles Darwin is the fascinating theme of a just-released book by AiG–USA researcher and speaker, Dr. Terry Mortenson.
Some books can forever change the way you see the world. Dr David A. Noebel's popular book Understanding the Times is a rare life-changer.
In 'The Mind Siege Project,' eight teens on a boat are given lessons in 'tolerance' and 'diversity' by an instructor who won't tolerate one of the students reading her Bible in front of the others.
A unique book suitable for the entire family came hot off the press on Thursday, April 12.
Vice President Al Gore's book Earth in the Balance (a 1992 best-seller) is being re-released on April 22nd, the 30th anniversary of "Earth Day."
This little book goes far in addressing a critical weakness in contemporary Christian theology.
This is a description of the "A Is For Adam" book, produced by Ken and Mally Ham.
While lashing out at creationists, Dennett says that they are 'right about one thing; Darwin's dangerous idea cuts much deeper into the fabric of our most fundamental beliefs....'
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael J. Behe is a fascinating book which deals with the question of the origin of complex biochemical systems.
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Stones and Bones is the ideal booklet for someone who wants to know the basic reasons why Christians (and some non-Christians) reject evolution in favour of creation.
I was delighted when Dr Noel Weeks book came into my hands. Weeks believes that the debate about the Bible has shifted its centre of gravity in recent years.
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- AnonymousFebruary 20, 2010 at 12:03 PM
I understand where you're coming from, but I'd like to think the audience can get their head around this issue. This is the place for experienced builders, and I wish you were there. It would be nice to see some fast race bikes in something other than carbon. I think tig'd steel and alum. are worth looking at.ReplyDelete
I gotta be honest.....If I were there I'd be looking for the cool lugs....what can I say ? It' looking, not riding so I'd be all into the visual. Stuff like Bayliss, Gordon , Weigle....amazing work. I'm sure they are great riding bikes, too.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 22, 2010 at 12:40 AM
I'll take--and ride the shit out of--a Rock Lobster, Coconino, Curtlo, Soulcraft and Ted Wojcik anyday over some overwrought, masturbatory piece of bicycle sculpture.ReplyDelete
Don't forget Sycip, Hunter , I.F., Steelman < Kelley ......ReplyDelete
But wait....there's more ! De Salvo, Kish , Bruce Gordon Rock'n Road....Inglis....Caletti...ReplyDelete
There's the wife and there's a trophy wife. A trophy wife has big boobs, legs all the way up to here, awesome hair and amazing bone structure, and is outa there as soon as something goes wrong. The wife is the mother of your children, stands by you in thick and thin, and can discuss more than the contents of fashion magazines. I'd rather have the latter in a woman and in a bike.ReplyDelete
Damn, Paul every one of your posts are like you've looked into my inner ignored thoughts. I'm happy to be a boring builder.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 23, 2010 at 4:51 PM
All the builders mentioned, and then some (Steve Potts!) build frames that I'd be psyched to ride.ReplyDelete
" My bikes will not wow you "ReplyDelete
Hmm, I don't know about that. I remember pulling a frame off the wall in Garro's shop a couple years ago, a Lobster with many miles (and countries) on it. "The only one I couldn't break", he said.
I was wowed.
The word I would have used is "didn't" rather than couldn't. I firmly believe that if Steve haden't gotten into single speeding and kept riding that old yellow frame he very well could have broken it !ReplyDelete
Damn it's refreshing to hear an honest and grounded frame builder. (I'm not saying there aren't more of you out there. I know at least a few.) But post after post, these are the thoughts that keep dragging me deeper into this mess of an industry and profession.ReplyDelete
I just hope after 20+ years of doing this, I end up having good conversations with my friends and inspiring the next generation, as opposed to professing myself as having mystical powers of "Getting It" and discouraging any train of thought aside from my own.
Keep up the great work that does still inspire some of us folks.


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Put a String on It: Inspirational String Art
If you like the idea of yarn bombing in public spaces, then you'll love its small scale cousin for the home: string art. It works at all sizes and can really be made by anyone with a hammer, nails and a spool of thread. It can be made for a specific design, or you can just go with the flow for a more graphic and organic piece. Check out some of amazing string art inspiration, including a few DIY instructions, after the jump:
1 Decorative Ampersand by Elise Blaha Cripe (includes directions)
2 Office via World Famous Design Junkies
3 String Map by FsmVpggru (check out awesome time lapse of the making of the map)
4 Over It via Mike Giepert
5 String Art above the Mantel via Apartment Therapy
6 Home Sweet Home by Aguja y Taladro
7 Mixed Media Nail & Metallic String California by As You Like It (many more string art designs at their Etsy shop)
8 String Tree Wall Mural Tutorial via Re-Nest
9 FREE By Sean Martindale
10 Salvaged Yarn Art Mural via Re-Nest
11 Frontiers of Reality by mestudio/Martin Pyper (don't miss the stop-motion animation)
12 Every Generation Has To... by mestudio/Martin Pyper
13 String Art Wall Mural Pattern Sheets by Mo Man Tai Design, via Re-Nest
14 Wedding Invitation by Kyle Read
15 String Wall Art Tutorial by Nine Red
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5 Cutting Boards that Do Double Duty
I cook at home every day and I love vegetables. So that means that I spend a lot of time with my cutting board. While my board works well as a cutting board it's rather large and bulky, and it only gets used to chop things and then sits back in the corner by itself. I wish it did more than just provide a safe place to mince, dice and chop. Maybe if it doubled as something else I'd find more appreciation for it. Here are five boards cute enough to show off all the time, not just when you have a knife in hand.
• Round Cutting Board by Joseph Joseph, $24.99 at Cambria Cove: Made from glass, this bright and cheerful cutting board also doubles as a trivet. Chop up vegetables for your favorite casserole and pop it in the oven, when it's ready plop it down on the now trivet to keep your counters safe.
• The OCD Chef, $24.99 at Perpetual Kid: Get a precise and beautiful chop on vegetables for important dishes or even if you're just a tad OCD. Besides chopping, this board is also perfect for pastry!
• Bowlboard, $69.00 at Yanko Design: When chopping multiple items on the cutting board I always line up bowls along the edge so I can easily scrape them into separate bowls. Instead of wasting bowls that I just have to hand wash later and making a mess all over the counter, the Bowlboard is a good alternative. The bowls fit in their own spaces on the cutting board and each vegetable (or whatever) can easily be slid into the bowl.
• Bole Werc Suuri, $90.00 at Supermarket: While this is actually being marketed as a moss planter, I don't see any reason why it couldn't be used as a double duty cutting board. It's made from Maple and with a good conditioning there's no reason why this board couldn't stand the test of time in the kitchen. Use the moss square to hold the bits and pieces you've already chopped so they don't fall all over the counter.
• Pull Out Chopping Block, DIY: This is an easy and extremely useful DIY that just about anyone could do. There are built-in cutting boards that can be installed with cabinets, so why not get a hole cut into the top and place your trash/composting bin below? It'll save a lot of time and effort and think about never having to clean up after a long prep!
Related: The Cutting Board as Serving Platter
(Images: Cambria Cove, Faith Durand, Yanko Design, Supermarket HQ, The Farm Chicks)


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Telecommuting - Information systems and Technology
Information Systems and certain equipment is needed for a telecommuter to conduct LIW and to communicate with the organisation and the clients, "Teleworking has been made possible by recent advances in both information and communication technologies allowing users to have access to information from outside a traditional office environment" (Tsiligirides, 1993: 242). The fact is, that competitive advantage, when using Location independent work , can be achieved only if information systems and technology are supporting it.
Laptop – A laptop is essential, and provides more mobility than a stationary computer. It allows an employee to process information, communicate with organisation, clients and suppliers, compare the prices and support many other activities. Performance of the laptop does not need to be state-of-art, as usually the newest laptops with high performance indicators cost a considerable amount of money comparing with regular performance laptops. However, laptops need to be powerful enough to work smoothly with certain software and applications that a telecommuter needs.
Information security facilities - Telecommuters deal with a considerable amount of information, thus CD/DVD writing device, external hard drive or organisations FTP should be used for backing up information. At the same time data access, integrity and security needs to be maintained, therefore security measures such as passwords, biometric devices, antivirus software, firewall or even data encryption for these purposes may be used. It is easy to restrict control of applications, software or internet use on site, however to restrict usage of a telecommuter's computer is much harder. To minimise the risk of viruses or confidential data theft it is recommended to use a work laptop just for LIW purposes.
Communication facilities - Location independent workers need to communicate with the organisation, suppliers, customers and colleagues. For a communication network, connectivity and certain types of equipment are necessary. This includes phone, fax, modem, fast internet access. Fast broadband with a wireless router is a good solution, however to increase mobility, a mobile USB dongle could be used to provide fast mobile broadband.
Information systems – The same IT platform needs to be used in organisation and LIW computer in order to ensure that all systems used are compatible with each other. A telecommuter work requires access to certain information which they would be able to access while being on site. Thus, connectivity to the organisations intranet network would be necessary as well as certain software and information systems necessary for the job. Unfortunately, sometimes Information Systems may be a obstacle for LIW implementation as they might be unsuitable for LIW. "Modern Integrated Logistics systems used in manufacturing would be quite unsuitable for remote working" (Nickson & Siddons, 2004: 22).
Groupware - "Groupware assists teams of people to work together because it provides key group functions; 'three Cs' of communication, collaboration and coordination" (Chaffey & Wood, 2005: 69). Groupware applications could include e-mail, messaging, and video conferencing. In fact, messaging, emails and video conferencing which use Voice Over IP technology would be necessary for a remote worker to maintain a high level of communication, collaboration and coordination with the organisation, colleagues and suppliers.


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VATICAN CITY — Marking the beginning of the seventh year of the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican newspaper launched a new website.
The site, initially available only in Italian and English, debuted last evening as this morning's issue of the newspaper rolled off the presses. Today is the anniversary of Pope Benedict's election in 2005.
The newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, said eventually it plans to have not just the daily Italian edition online, but also to post the English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Polish weekly editions as well.
Today the Italian site — and an English translation of select articles from it — was available for free. A story in the newspaper yesterday said the weekly editions would be available online to subscribers only, but articles from the daily Italian edition could be accessed free until Aug. 31 when the site will become subscription-only.


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Weekly Addresses: Thanksgiving, Taxes [VIDEO]
President Barack Obama is urging Americans to put aside partisan differences and come together as a nation for Thanksgiving.
Obama, just re-elected to a second term, says in his weekly radio and Internet address that the country has "just emerged from a campaign season that was passionate, noisy and vital to our democracy."
While the election required voters to make choices, Obama says Thanksgiving offers "a chance to put it all in perspective — to remember that, despite our differences, we are and always will be Americans first and foremost."
In the GOP address, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington state said Republicans are ready to work with Obama to avert impending tax increases, big spending cuts and other problems.
Note: GOP address not available for posting.
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|2011-02-14, 03:12
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The True Culprit
I still like the ending that it was a freak lightning bolt hitting one of the not-very-deeply-buried bombs, causing a chain reaction (possibly boostered by the ammonium nitrate spread all over the place).
|2011-02-14, 09:38
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Out of curiosity, in ep 3 was it ever explicitly stated that all "victims" of the first twilight were dead?
To be specific, was it ever stated, at the time of the first twilight, individually, that all specific people suspected to be dead at that time were in fact dead?
I recall it being stated that all the deaths were non-accidental, that all the deaths were caused by another person, that all of the deaths were not caused by traps, but I do not recall at any time that it was stated all the people whom appeared to be dead, at the time, were in fact dead.
Reason I bring this up is because I'm deliberately trying to tell how far the red truth is being stretched, and where. Because if, for example, it never was explicitly stated that all of those characters were dead, then it makes perfect sense for Wright's solution, since in fact everyone who was dead was killed by another person, directly, without a trap. "Two" of the "dead" people just weren't really dead.
This could likewise be extended to other arcs and potentially to things like the golden truth.
So essentially is there any place where something stated in red is, in Arc 7 and 8, specifically contradicted, or is it merely fudged with semantics?
|2011-02-14, 11:08
|Link #866
Senior Member
The closest to the original would be something along the lines of: "Kinzô, Genji, Shannon, Kanon, Gôda, Kumasawa, those 6 have passed away!"
I find it misleading to translate nin (人) with people here, even though it is the most often used meaning. It's more of a way to count anything that is perceived as 'human'.
You would still count a character in a book (登場人物) with nin (人) even though it may turn out he was an illusion. Even ghosts and stuff like that are counted with 人...
Especially if we take into consideration that the Red Truth is probably spoken from an author perspective it's not weird to count the characters as 人 and still not actually have 6 humans (6人の人間).
|2011-02-14, 11:42
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: forever lost inside a logic error
"have passed away" gives you a lot more freedom of interpretation than "死亡している". If witch hunt translated it like that, people would have speculated that death wasn't necessarily implied in that sentence, which isn't true.
|2011-02-14, 12:06
|Link #868
Senior Member
Then let's settle for "have died". The problem is that "死亡している" doesn't specify when death hit that person. "are deceased" might be another way to put it.
Yeah, I know...translations are a bitch.
|2011-02-14, 12:52
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I personally found "All of them had wounds resembling gunshot wounds which became fatal!" to be even more deceptive for that twilight. It directly implies Shannon and Kanon had separate bodies unless you hit on the idea of fake wounds AND notice the time shift between when the wounds were witnessed and the death confirmation.
|2011-02-14, 15:20
|Link #870
Senior Member
What I find very interesting is that she talks about 傷痕 (which is a scar that resulted from a wound) at this point and not of 傷 (a wound, cut or bruise), 傷口 (a gapping wound) or 傷創 (a wound or injury). Why would it be a scar if they were just killed some hours ago?! Just google some pictures with 傷痕 and you know why it's strange.
The only sentence that really gets in the way is the sentence 金蔵を除く5人の殺人の際、殺人者は必ず同室していた! (In the case of the murder of the 5 excluding Kinzô, the murderer was definitely in the same room!).
There is the theory from the battle against Eva-Beatrice's Nanjô trick, that the Red also depends on where in the game it is uttered...but I still don't know if I like that theory. If it were correct there'd be no problem with the Red because it was uttered in Episode 4, long after those Episode 3 characters died, but still...
This brings me to another question I'm still asking myself...
Is it possible that Shannon and Kanon do exist seperately and that they are both the Beatrice of 1986?! If we don't consider Kanon a complete illusion they could have both solved the epitaph...though that does make some scenes with Kinzô rather strange and would raise the question who of both would be the child from 19 years ago and the real grandchild of Kinzô and Beatrice Castiglioni...
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The original [mis]translation of that red was also very misleading in English because it implied inevitable fatality, rather than apparent fatality. That is, it cast doubt on whether the wounds were made by a gun, but asserted they were fatal, rather than simply suggesting - as the later retranslation did - that they had apparent wounds which, if real, would be fatal.
|2011-02-14, 17:43
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Don't look at red too much. Despite all the talks about "bla-bla, it's a weapon", its main purpose (outside of denying absolutely ridiculous theories, that no sensible person should consider) was to mislead and stagger your progress. Without it Shkannontrice would have had become much more apparent and anti-shkannon faction would have had lost its hope for a better solution much sooner. Instead it just leads to an endless semantic discussion. All contradictions/dubious points won't ever be solved because "it's a game, don't stop thinking".
Even in ep8, Bern's mystery, among all possible tricks he uses misleading red. Again. Once you realize it, that mystery becomes obvious.
|2011-02-15, 03:14
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I wish I could say this isn't true cmos, because I'm pretty sure that Ryuukishi's intent was for the red to be a aid for the readers and their reasonings...
but in the end in some cases it turned out to be just a liability.
The problem is that in a story where you can't be sure that what is described is the truth, a "red text" is necessary. If you lose it you lose the only reliable basis you have to build your theories upon.
Nothing is "obvious" when everything can be "questioned".
|2011-02-15, 05:09
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Red truth - witch truth
Witch truth, or in other words, red text - words that we can interpretate in many values
Red text since 4th episode lost immovability, say something like: "You fool", "All these truth",
"Somebody died, therefore somebody killed him" and so on.
For me was enought red truth from ep4 Tea party and information about Yasu life,
Cat box was opened since Legend, trying to close it at Twilight nothing more than trying to count all numbers from zero to infinity and say that at the end Zero.
|2011-02-15, 11:07
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Haven't been here in forever, feeling there's very little point ever since arc 8 came out anyway...
The way red truth was used in umineko, I think might be a credibility suicide for Ryuukishi. Basically whatever he's going to make next we won't believe his "rules" anymore.
Now that it's all over tho, I find it rather sad that the red was ... well desecrated that way.
This is really a personal feeling, but ultimately I think that what "we" were doing in arc 2-3-4 (and 5 I guess), trying to "fight against the red" and find a solution that wonderfully didn't break them and made a lot of sense, was the biggest fun of Umineko to me.
Red vs Blue was too cool of an idea imo, to be used in such an unfair way.
Weird red appeared from arc 2 actually, Beato has a lot of laugh in red and calls Battler incompetant in red.
|2011-02-15, 12:40
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Indeed. For all that talk about red text to guide the reader, it turned out to be just trickery. I still don't buy personality death. It's a ridiculous way to approach it.
In a normal mystery novel, your guide is the detective. What he says, you can take it as canon.
"I declare that no woman could have possibly committed this crime," says Vance in The Benson Murder Case.
What do you know? He was right! Because that's how detective novels work. You have the detective guiding you into the author's world, explaining how it works so that you can have a fair chance at the riddles yourself.
"What about a secret passage?"
"Nonsense, I would have noticed," says the detective.
That's your cue to know that the word of god has been spoken. There are no secret passages in this story.
I think Umineko could have been greatly more fun if Battler was a more competent detective. A detective doesn't just appear in mystery novels to be the deus ex machina, his function is like a tour guide. The reader can't be expected to guess how people think inside the world constructed by a random author, can he? That's where the detective comes in. "A man would never do X if a woman was in the room." Questionable statement if made about reality, and one the reader would never infer unless he had the same views that the author did. But once the detective declares such a thing, the reader is clued in on how the writer thinks, which is a vital component in making a work fair.
For all that thing about red text being the supreme truth, it ended up being less true than the general proclamation made by the detective in a mystery novel.
|2011-02-15, 12:53
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3 comments:
- Hettie said...
I saw a print that you made of Patti from Worth the Whisk's Lemon Poundcake and went to Etsy... then nearly had a coronary seeing the awesome Pear Bread print... as I am a lover of pear bread and have a recipe for it on my blog. :-)
So so cool!
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P.S. This is the link to the pear bread: http://celticmommy.blogspot.com/2008/03/making-time-for-yourself-pear-bread.html
- February 25, 2011 at 1:10 PM
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Hettie- That is so neat! Thanks for sharing. Lisa
- February 28, 2011 at 6:53 PM
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Please excuse me for commenting so late on this.
It warms my heart to see this pear bread drawing again.
Hettie, you might be interested to see this yeasted pear bread recipe:
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Lipscomb began strong, clinching every doubles match, but lost all in singles. The match final was 6-1.
Lipscomb will play host to Western Kentucky in their final regular season matchup on April 10 in Nashville. The location and time is to be announced. Seniors Raphaela Jann and Olivia Ellis will be honored.
The Lady Bisons are 6-14 overall, 0-10 in the Atlantic Sun.
1. Whitnie Warren (BEL) def. Raphaela Jann (LIP) 6-1, 6-0
2. Tatiana Pozo (BEL) def. Kara Jackson (LIP) 6-3, 6-2
3. Abby Leatherwood (BEL) def. Elizabeth Keevil (LIP) 6-2, 6-1
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