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A new, $9 million building equipped with the latest in scientific technology was dedicated Dec. 15 at the Texas A&M-Kingsville University Citrus Center at Weslaco.
The two-story building replaced converted military barracks dating back to World War II that were hauled to the site from a nearby military base in Harlingen, according to center director Dr. John da Graca.
"Those old buildings were getting very expensive to maintain, so we are especially pleased to be in our new facilities that will help us carry on the 60- year tradition here of excellence in research," he said.
The center's achievements over that time include development of deep red grapefruit varieties, including the Star Ruby and Rio Red varieties developed by Dr. Richard Hensz, a former director of the center who traveled from his home in Kerrville to attend the ceremony.
"The Rio Red is the main variety grown in Texas," da Graca said. "The Rio Red and the Star Ruby are widely grown in other countries including South Africa, Australia, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel and Argentina."
New varieties in pipeline
The development of new varieties continues, with several "in the pipeline," da Graca said.
"This new building will help us meet the current and future challenges of maintaining a healthy, profitable citrus industry that generates badly needed jobs and income. It will also help us continue helping local students earn their graduate degrees, 50 of whom have done so already," he said.
Several state officials praised the center's scientific research history as the foundation for the Texas citrus industry's past and future.
"Planning for the fine facilities we are dedicating today began 10 years ago," said Dr. Allen Rasmussen, dean of the Dick and Mary Lewis Kleberg College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Human Sciences at Texas A&M-Kingsville.
"Funds were provided by state tuition revenue bonds, but the term is misleading," he said. "It was not paid for with any tuition anybody has paid; it was paid for by the citizens of Texas."
World-class scientists
"The eight professors at this center are world-class scientists who do significant research here, known both nationally and internationally," said Dr. Steven Tallant, president of Texas A&M University-Kingsville.
He cited various areas of ongoing research at the center including identifying and developing strategies for several serious diseases and pests, solving post-harvest problems, the development of new pesticide registrations, molecular biology, investigations of genetic disease and cold tolerance, and researching the role citrus compounds can play in preventing human diseases.
"This new building is symbolic of where we're going scientifically for the people of Texas," he said.
"This facility is a gem in our educational system of Texas," said state Sen. Eddie Lucio, D-Brownsville.
"Battling diseases, improving orchard production, developing new citrus varieties and all the first-class research that goes on here helps the Texas citrus industry compete with China, Florida, California and all the other citrus-producing regions of the world," he said
Lucio also cited the center's successful efforts in creating and managing the state mandatory virus-free budwood certification program for nurseries throughout Texas, both commercial and homeowner.
In thanking the center's faculty and staff for providing the scientific research that supports the area's annual $200 million industry, Lucio presented a State Senate proclamation to Dr. Michael D. McKinney, chancellor of the Texas A&M University System, and Tallant.
Texas Agriculture commissioner Todd Staples praised the center for teamwork and collaboration in helping the Texas Department of Agriculture develop state regulations.
Other speakers or state officials on hand for the ceremony included state Rep. Armando "Mando" Martinez, D-Weslaco; state Rep. Ryan Guillen, D-Rio Grande City; Paul Heller, chairman of the Citrus Center's advisory committee; and Josue Reyes, senior project manager of Skanska, the building construction contractors.
The new building is a two-story, 25,000-square-feet facility with state-of-the-art laboratories.
"The first floor features administrative offices, meeting rooms, classroom and diagnostic laboratories," said da Graca. "The second floor consists of a core laboratory, specialized laboratories, offices for faculty and technicians, and graduate student cubicles."
Construction began in the summer of 2009 and was completed this year. Staff and faculty moved from their old facilities to the new one in August.
Following the dedication ceremony, a luncheon was held in the new auditorium, sponsored by Texas Citrus Mutual and TexaSweet Marketing.
Becky Bonham, chairperson of Texas Citrus Mutual presented the Citrus Center with a poster depicting the family tree of Texas grapefruit.
Solomon Torres, representing U.S. Rep. Ruben Hinojosa, presented a ceremonial U.S. flag, and Barbara and Jimmie Steidinger presented a check to Tallant for a scholarship endowment for Citrus Center graduate students.


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A third Houma man has been charged for his involvement in a May 27 armed robbery and beating of a man riding his bicycle, Houma Police said Thursday.
A third Houma man has been charged for his involvement in a May 27 armed robbery and beating of a man riding his bicycle, Houma Police said Thursday.
Kendall Thibodaux, 19, 512 1/2 East St., was arrested Wednesday near Authement Street Park, officials said. Thibodaux was identified by police as a suspect shortly after the robbery, and they received a tip he would be at the park about 7 p.m..
At the time of his arrest, Thibodaux had several individual bags of suspected marijuana as well as about $100 in cash with him, police said.
He was arrested on armed robbery and second-degree battery warrants, authorities said. He was also charged with possession with the intent to distribute marijuana and transactions involving proceeds from drug offenses.
Thibodaux allegedly pulled up in white Chevy Caprice beside a 26-year-old man who was riding his bicycle near Roselawn and Payne streets around 11 p.m. May 27, Houma Police Lt. Dana Coleman said.
Thibodaux, who was accompanied by two other men, got out and began to beat and kick the man, who sustained fractures to his face, police said. The robbers took about $300 from the man's pockets.
Joey Wilson, 25, 2632 Daniel Turner Trailer Court, was charged May 28 with armed robbery, aggravated battery and use of a firearm in connection with the robbery. Wilson was in his car, which was near the intersection of Barrow Street and Morningside Drive, at the time of his arrest, Coleman said. Police said they believe three other people were involved in the crime.
Clifford Brown Jr., 32, 2623 Bryant St., was booked May 30 on charges of armed robbery, second-degree battery and use of a firearm for his involvement, police said. He was arrested at his home.
Hours after that robbery, at about 2:20 a.m. May 28, several men driving a white Chevy Caprice got out of the car and confronted a man putting his trash out in the 400 block of Triple Court, police said.
A man, described as being 5 feet 5 inches tall and around 130 pounds, began walking toward the victim with a pointed revolver.
As the victim began backing away, the suspects fired a round of shots and fled, officials said.
These crimes were just two incidents in a rash of early-morning armed robberies that hit the area between May 20 and May 28, which all had many basic parallels, Coleman said.
"We believe there is a possibility that these crimes are related due to the similarities in all of the cases," Coleman said.
About 12:45 a.m. May 20, several people living in the 100 block of Authement Street woke to the sound of a crash, Coleman said. They found two men stumbling through their home, demanding cash and jewelry. The robbers were dressed in black and carried semi-automatic guns. When the residents told the men they did not have anything to give them, they left.
On May 24, two men, also dressed in black, entered a home in the 600 block of Liberty Street at 3:51 a.m. while a man and woman were inside, Coleman said. The robbers beat up the man and stole electronics, cash and the keys to a dark- colored suburban. They fled in the Suburban, which was recovered hours later near Mathews Lane and East Street in the Mechanicville area. The resident who was beaten also had ties to Mechanicville, Coleman said.
The following morning, several suspects attacked a man in the 2600 block of Daniel Turner Trailer Court at 2:30 a.m., Coleman said. They then stole his white Dodge Charger, which was recovered the next day near Authement Street Park.
All but one of the incidents happened in the Mechanicville neighborhood.
The investigations into these crimes are ongoing, Coleman said. No descriptions of suspects have been released.

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Futurama delights in science humor, (math, physics, computer science,) which seems like a disaster for mainstream media, even to me. But the Wired article reveals how the creators, Matt Groening and David X. Cohen, managed to (eventually) walk the tightrope of financial success by keeping the main story line humorous for all, but adorning it with humor for the minority.
A personal favorite, and one I think all functional programmers will enjoy, is this little gem about narrowing types:
Moon farmer: Yep, goes down to -173 degrees.Hats off to Futurama for making math funny.
Fry: Celsius or Fahrenheit?
Moon farmer: First one, then the other.


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An intramural unit refers to either a residence hall, a fraternity, a sorority or a recognized organization (on or off campus). At the end of the year, there will be competition among residence halls, fraternities, sororities and campus organizations to determine an overall champion.
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Carlton: Mack Brown reunited Darrell Royal and Texas, and the program was better for it
The friendship between Darrell Royal and Mack Brown spanned generations and college football eras.
It was equal parts mutual admiration and mutual support, one reason today's Texas home game with Iowa State will be a poignant moment for Brown, as well as the UT fans, and a celebration of Royal's life.
The legendary Texas coach died Wednesday at age 88. Texas will honor Royal by starting in his signature Wishbone formation and with a "DKR" decal on the Longhorn helmet logo.
The game, which has significance for Texas' bowl placement thanks to a three-game winning streak, has been overshadowed by Royal's death.
"I know he'll be watching," Brown said Thursday night on the Longhorn Network.
Admittedly distraught after receiving a text message that Royal had died Wednesday morning, Brown released a heartfelt statement. His first public comments followed on the LHN.
Brown recalled that his father and grandfather had died just before he took the Texas job prior to the 1998 season.
"He [Royal] blessed me with so much wisdom. … Without realizing it, he filled a void for me," Brown said.
Royal was one of the few coaches who could relate to coaching a monster program.
Win or lose, Royal knew what worked and the pitfalls that came with the Texas job.
"He was a guy who could make complicated things seem so simple when you asked him, which I just loved," Brown said.
Just as important, Brown reunited Royal and Texas, involving him in big moments and day-to-day practice visits.
Strange as it seems now, Royal had drifted away from the program for a variety of reasons.
Royal had favored longtime assistant Mike Campbell as his replacement, which failed to endear him to eventual successor Fred Akers. David McWilliams, a former Royal player and assistant, didn't want to bother his old boss. John Mackovic strived to build his own tradition at Texas.
Conversely, Brown was a longtime Royal admirer who embraced what had come before. Royal had recommended Brown when the search for a new coach was taking place.
This week, athletic director DeLoss Dodds said he thought Royal "made a huge difference of Mack and [wife] Sally being in Austin."
Not long after Brown took the job, Royal called him to suggest catching a local country singer in Austin. Great, Brown said. Royal offered to drive and then asked where Brown's office was.
"Same place as John's," Brown said.
Royal said he needed a little help. "I don't think I've ever been there," he said.
Later on a drive to a coaching clinic in San Antonio, Royal told former assistant Spike Dykes that Brown had "recharged me. He's included me in stuff."
After Ricky Williams' epic performance at Nebraska in 1998, Brown called Royal from the locker room. The same exchange occurred after Major Applewhite led a Holiday Bowl victory in 2001. Despite the late hour, Royal was awake and enthused.
At least once, Royal declined Brown's offer. After the 2005 win over Southern California, Brown asked that Royal join the team for the national championship trophy presentation.
"He sent a message back [saying] 'This is your time, this is your moment and I don't want to take it away,'" Brown said.
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CRESTVIEW � With more than 100 parents who opt to drive their children instead of letting them ride the school bus, Antioch Elementary School's morning traffic can cause parents to wait up to a half-hour in line before returning to Antioch Road.
CRESTVIEW � Antioch Elementary School's morning traffic can cause parents to wait a half-hour in line before returning to Antioch Road.
That's too long for parents like Amanda Gourm, who says she has other things to do.
"For some people, who have other children in day care or other schools, this is a big problem ... It causes (them) to be late to school or miss daycare," she said in an email.
Last year, Crestview Police Department officers aided traffic control at the Garrett Pit-Antioch Road intersection, but budget cuts eliminated that service.
Cuts also claimed the police department's crossing guard positions, leaving uniformed officers in their place.
"There are always officers sitting there to make sure no one speeds, but they have not once bothered to step out of their cars to direct traffic," Gourm said.
Officer Wanda Hulion, who handles pedestrian safety at the busy Antioch and Garrett Pit intersection, said traffic control is not part of the assignment.
"There's a lot of misunderstanding about what we do," Hulion said. "When we're in the school zone, it is to take care of the pedestrians. Our focus is making sure children get across that road safely."
130 cars means congestion
Hulion and Antioch Principal Wanda Avery said the congestion comes from nearly 130 parents who drive their children to school in lieu of having them ride school buses.
"We explain to parents, 'Your child has the ability to ride the bus; please let them do so,'" Avery said. "We do encourage them to let their children ride the bus."
Forty-five students who attend Antioch on admission waivers from other school zones are among the students who lack school bus service access and ride with their parents, Avery said.
The reasons parents decline letting children ride the school buses are diverse, though a major reason is "nervousness of having a young child ride the bus," Avery said.
And directing traffic near the school presents concerns beyond Antioch parents' time in the line.
Because the P.J. Adams Parkway-Antioch Road corridor serves many motorists, stopping traffic at the intersection resulted in numerous complaints last year, police officers said.
"It's kind of a no-win situation because of how heavily P.J. is traveled," Officer Sam Kimmons said.
"If we stop traffic to let people out of Garrett Pit (Road), all the people on Antioch would complain," Hulion said. "If we stopped people on Garrett Pit, all the (motorists in) traffic from the school would complain."
Back-ups are inevitable on winding Whitehurst Lane, which runs to the school from Garrett Pit, Hulion said.
"You can't have that many car riders and not have traffic problems," she said. "If they want to be car riders, they're just going to have to understand there's going to be lots of traffic, and plan for it.
"We make sure pedestrians are safe. That's what we're doing there," she said. "Traffic just has to work itself out."
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Old campaign money flows to former intelligence chair's new group, and former staffers
November 24, 2015 | As they await January 2, 2016 — the day they can legally become lobbyists — former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and his former chief of staff, along with two more of Rogers' onetime staffers, have found a use for some of the lawmaker's $1.3 million leftover campaign funds. It doesn't involve many contributions to other candidates or the…
Chinese Telecom Firm Says It's Not Giving Up the Fight in Washington
December 5, 2013 | Giant telecom company Huawei, long suspected of being a front group for the Chinese military and intelligence agencies, has cut its lobbying budget now that a congressional investigation is in the past, but says it's not going away.
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April 13, 2011 | It's no secret that corporations and special interest groups that dominate lobbying in the nation's capital routinely shower campaign cash on congressional committees directly affecting affect their business interests. But a study by the Center for Responsive Politics and The Fiscal Times found that special interests routinely target members of Congress who can do them the most good.
Google, Facebook Among Young Tech Companies Firing Up Lobbying Efforts
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Democratic Sen. Jack Reed Envisions New Financial Regulations
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The prevailing idea that sea-level rise will inevitably wipe out mangrove forests — fragile ecosystems that protect nearby communities from natural hazards such as floods and storms — is challenged by a recent report.
Mangroves in some areas will be able to survive climate change-induced sea-level rise as they can slowly increase the level of soil in which they thrive, but only if they are managed and protected, according to 'The response of mangrove soil surface elevation to sea level rise' report.
Activities such as building dams on rivers and converting mangrove areas into shrimp farms may have a stronger impact on the health of mangroves than sea-level rise, the report adds. Once weakened by such changes, mangroves will be less able to adapt to changes in sea level.
'A lot of the rivers [that feed mangrove areas] are being dammed, and by doing that we reduce the freshwater flow and sediment flow to mangroves. Both can be very deleterious for mangroves,' says Anna McIvor, lead author of the report and a researcher at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
'Once mangroves are degraded, they are much less likely to keep up with sea-level rise,' McIvor tells SciDev.Net.
The report surveyed key literature published from 2006 to 2011, and found that mangroves in some areas have adapted to rising sea levels and would continue to do so in the future.
But, it notes, longer-term data on the effects of sea-level rise on mangroves are missing.
'Most of the current measurements span [only] about ten years,' says McIvor. Yet, sea levels do not rise that quickly.
She says that evidence is currently also limited by the small number of locations in which mangrove studies have taken place, restricting researchers' abilities to assess differences in local conditions and make global predictions on the future of mangroves.
Alfredo Quarto, executive director of US conservation NGO the Mangrove Action Project, says that the report's main benefits are that it highlights the need for further study and the need to act.
'One of the problems with such studies,' he says, 'is that [though] they highlight things that are important, how does one take those bits of information and put them into practice to conserve the mangroves? So, I hope the report stimulates action by governments and that they see the value of mangroves in protecting [communities].'
The report, published in July, is the third in a series on mangroves brought out by conservation bodies the Nature Conservancy and Wetlands International in collaboration with the University of Cambridge. The two earlier reports examined the coastal defence that mangroves provide against waves and storms.
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EPA Awards $6.75 Million in Brownfields funding to Cleanup and Revitalize Massachusetts Communities
Release Date: 06/05/2012
Contact Information: EPA Public Affairs, (617) 918-1010
(Boston, Mass. – June 5, 2012) – EPA is providing $6.75 million in Brownfields grants to help Massachusetts communities to assess, cleanup and redevelop abandoned or contaminated properties. The funding is part of more than $17 million in EPA brownfields investments across the six New England states announced by EPA to protect health and the environment, create jobs and promote economic re-development in American communities.
The grant money can assist work to reclaim sites including old textile mills, sites containing hazardous substances and petroleum products and other abandoned industrial and commercial properties. EPA's Brownfields program encourages redevelopment of America's estimated 450,000 abandoned and contaminated waste sites.
In Massachusetts this year, EPA is providing 33 separate Brownfields grants to the following municipalities and groups:
- · Attleboro Redevelopment Authority, $400,000 (2 cleanup grants, Automatic Machine Products property and American Metalcraft Property)
· City of Fall River, $400,000 (1 Community-wide assessment grant, 1 Community-wide cleanup grant)
· City of New Bedford, $200,000 (cleanup grant, 478 - 480 Union St.)
· City of Boston, $400,000 (2 cleanup grants, Jackson Commons - 1542 and 1540 Columbus Ave.)
· United Neighbors of Lower Roxbury, $200,000 (cleanup grant, UNLR Community Cultural Center)
· Berkshire Regional Planning Commission, $250,000 (1 Community-wide Revolving Loan Fund Supplemental grant)
· Westmass Area Development Corporation (Chicopee), $200,000 (cleanup grant, Ludlow Mills)
· City of Chicopee, $800,000 (1 Community-wide assessment grant, 3 cleanup grants for Uniroyal Property Parcels)
· City of Holyoke, $200,000 (cleanup grant, Mountain Road Firing Range)
· Pioneer Valley Planning Commission, $400,000 (2 Community-wide assessment grants)
· Town of Lee, $100,000 (cleanup grant, 25 School Street)
· Town of Framingham, $400,000 (2 Community-wide assessment grants)
· New Garden Park, Inc. (Worcester), $200,000 (cleanup grant, Worcester Telegram & Gazette Bldg., 18-20 Franklin St.)
· City of Worcester, $300,000 (1 Community-wide Revolving Loan Fund Supplemental grant)
· Town of North Brookfield, $200,000 (cleanup grant, 57 School St.)
· City of Gloucester, $400,000 (2 Community-wide assessment grants)
· Ocean Alliance (Gloucester), $200,000 (cleanup grant, Tarr & Wonson Paint Factory)
· Merrimack Valley Planning Commission, $200,000 (Community-wide assessment grant)
· City of Lawrence, $400,000 (2 Community-wide assessment grants)
· City of Somerville, $900,000 (3 cleanup grants for Kiley Barrel parcels [8 Bennett St., 10 Milk St., 264-266 Somerville Ave.], 1 Community-wide Revolving Loan Fund Supplemental grant)
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Since the beginning of EPA's Brownfields Program, in New England alone EPA has awarded 296 assessment grants totaling $72.7 million, 62 revolving loan fund grants and supplemental funding totaling $68.4 million and 213 cleanup grants totaling $47 million. These grant funds have paved the way for more than $1.45 billion in public and private cleanup and redevelopment investment and for 9,756 jobs in assessment, cleanup, construction and redevelopment on over 2200 sites across New England.
Nationally, the figures are impressive: As of May 2012, EPA's brownfields assistance has leveraged more than $18.3 billion in cleanup and redevelopment funding from a variety of public and private sources and helped create approximately 75,500 jobs. More than 18,000 properties have been assessed, and over 700 properties have been cleaned up. These investments and jobs target local, under-served and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods – places where environmental cleanups and new jobs are most needed.
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We formally request that the government of Switzerland, in the name of their iconic dog the St Bernard, reconsider their refusal to outlaw eating dogs and cats. We understand that this practice is on a small scale in Switzerland, and is abhorrent to most Swiss citizens. We would request that the Swiss government joins with the rest of Europe and legislates against this practice in their country, thereby confirming their solidarity with the world wide campaign to end the heinous trade in the torture and killing of companion animals for human consumption.
Karen Cole
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In 2013 breeding and killing dogs for human consumption is still legal in many countries ..AND even in SWITZERLAND. World wide publicity, often with horrific images, about this practice in those...
In 2013 breeding and killing dogs for human consumption is still legal in many countries ..AND even in SWITZERLAND. World wide publicity, often with horrific images, about this practice in those countries where this evil multi-billion dollar trade flourishes has shown us how horrendous this callous obscenity really is. To make matters worse even the St Bernard dog, part of Switzerland's history and tradition, have been imported into China for this evil purpose. The meat of the St Bernard especially is sold for a high price and served as a delicacy. The terror these dogs are subjected to is not only due to callous inhumanity but is purposely engendered to cause an adrenaline rush that supposedly improves the flavour of meat. St Bernard dogs have an amazing search and rescue reputation, in finding humans buried beneath the snow and sharing the warmth of their bodies they have saved many people from certain death. Lost children have been carried to safety on their backs. The history of these valiant and compassionate creatures is legendary. The reward for their devotion to the protection of human life is that they have been exported to countries where their docile nature and size is exploited as profitable meat dogs for the wealthy. In their name we dedicated this petition for all dogs subjected to abuse by humans. Dogs, our best and devoted friends for centuries have no voice...we must speak for them.


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The Tyrannosaurus rex wouldn't have liked pushups. That's because it had short arms.
The Tyrannosaurus rex wouldn't have liked pushups. That's because it had short arms.
The mechanics would have been difficult for a T. rex to get into pushup position. The range of motion its arms needed to complete a pushup were taken up by the size of its head. All the verbal cues and mobility tricks in the world would have proved futile because of the decreased arm proportions.
Some athletes think they are prohibited from doing exercises such as squats and dead lifts because they don't possess the mechanics for them or they are just not "built" for those kinds of movements.
I can almost hear the world's smallest violin playing background music for this athlete's whine.
Some athletes have ligament conditions that prohibit these movements. Doctors and physical therapists can recommend which movements you can do. Just remember, even with short arms, T. rex earned a name like "tyrannous." There may be other things you can excel at. Don't rule out fitness all together because of some limitation. Find out what you can do and excel at it.
Today's movements help condition the body for squatting and dead lifting. They are barbell complexes. I like using barbell complexes to train the neurological pathways for certain types of movements. It is practice for which muscles the brain needs to activate and when.
For example, when dead lifting, the core, back and glutes should be active. If they are not, then the back rounds and things start to ache.
Today's barbell complexes require proper activation of the involved muscles and focus on the correct sequence of movements to perform squats and dead lifts.
Barbell complexes are also a good way to let the muscles dynamically warm up without adding weight. Light movements throughout the full range of motion help increase blood flow to the muscles.
Warming the muscles before working hard is one way to prevent injury. You know you are "warm" if you are breathing heavily. It may take 5 to 10 minutes.
The dead-lift barbell complex specifically conditions the hips to take the heaviest load. It also strengthens the entire back. As the back isometrically stabilizes the spine it becomes stronger. If you notice the back rounding, then contract the core even tighter.
Starting this complex at the top of the dead lift is by design. It is to condition the hamstrings. Sometimes it is difficult for athletes to get into the bottom of a dead lift because the hamstrings are tight. This barbell complex helps warm up the tissue for performance. The weight of the bar adds just enough external stimuli to allow the hamstrings to stretch.
Speaking from experience as a former T. rex whiner, I've seen this movement help me mobilize my hamstrings. I used to think that dead lifts weren't for me. Now I can't wait until Wednesdays so I can dead lift again.
The barbell squat complex trains the specific areas that a person needs to perform a strong squat. Like the dead lift, it teaches the hips to take most of the load. The tempo is important. It teaches control on the way down with the 4-second eccentric movement. It also teaches an athlete to become comfortable with the depth required by pausing for 2 seconds at the bottom.
This pause can been viewed as a mobility tool. You may be able to get lower on later sets than earlier ones as the tissue warms up and the nervous system begins to understand what you demand of it. Speed on the way up is the strength element. Speed is easy to muster with light weights but that same speed will help you to avoid getting stuck half way up with heavier loads.
Both of these barbell complexes have some common movement elements. First is to keep the back straight. It is most important to protect your spine when moving weight. This means having the core and the shoulder blades squeezed tight. Real tight. If the back rounds then the core is probably not tight.
These barbell complexes are designed to run the body through the full range of motion. If range of motion is a problem for you, perform the complexes without weight. Use them as a mobility tool in addition to your foam rolling and stretching. With time you will have your range of motion and strength will come quickly.
Keep the weight close to the body, especially during the dead lift. The barbell should touch the legs on the way up and on the way down. If the bar moves away from the legs, even an inch, your back has to work extra to perform the lift. Save your back and keep the weight close to the body.
If you experience back pain while performing these complexes, stop. Reassess your form. Get a trainer or friend to watch you. Have them take a short video of your movements with their phone. The first place I look in the event of back pain is the core and then the hips. If your core and hips look good and you continue to experience pain, then get a professional opinion about your movements.
You do not need a full-sized barbell to perform barbell complexes. Use a lighter bar or even a PVC pipe. Focus on the correct movements and range of motion. Progress slowly.
Instructions for Deadlift Complex
Set up
While standing with the feet under the hips, hold the barbell at shoulder width with the top of the hands facing outward. Contract the glutes and core and pull the shoulder blades together. Maintain a neutral neck.
(1) Hinging at the hips and keeping the back straight, allow the bar to slide down the legs until it reaches midthigh. Contract the glutes and push the hips forward until you are standing. (2) Hinging at the hips and keeping the back straight, allow the bar to slide down the legs until it reaches the knees. Contract the glutes and push the hips forward until you are standing. (3) Hinging at the hips and keeping the back straight, allow the bar to slide down the legs until it reaches midshin. Contract the glutes and push the hips forward until you are standing.
Repeat this sequence five times for two to six sets. Watch for form flaws such as the knees crashing inward, the heels rising and the back rounding. Keep the shins vertical.
Instructions for Squat Complex
Set up
Position the feet outside hip width with the toes slightly pointed out. Place the bar on the meat of the upper back. Contract the glutes and core, and pull the shoulder blades together.
Hinging at the hip, slowly count to four as you descend into a squat. Pause for 2 seconds at your lowest comfortable depth. Then contract the glutes and come quickly out of the squat.
Perform this sequence five times for two to six sets. Watch for form flaws such as the knees crashing inward, the heels rising and the back rounding.
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A producer called and said, "Kim, I did something that I probably shouldn't have." He has sold six Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT) July 2008 wheat contracts at $6.96. Using a 45 under (-45¢) basis, he had hedged 30,000 bushels of wheat for an expected price of $6.51. Not bad!
His concern was that, at the time of the call, the KBCT July contract price had just closed at $7.62¾. He had received a total of $20,025 in margin calls. The second question was, "How high can the KCBT July 2008 contract go?"
As if I knew the answer, I said "$9.50." That would be a total margin of $12,700 per contract or $72,200 for six contracts. The historical high KCBT nearby contract price is $9.50.
Three more questions were discussed. What was causing wheat prices to increase? How low could the KCBT July go between now and June 2008? And, what should he do?
Wheat prices are being driven by tight U.S. and world wheat stocks. The stocks-to-use ratios (wheat ending stocks divided by use) are record or near record lows. United States ending stocks are projected to be about 312 million bushels, the lowest since 1948. In 1948, total U.S. wheat use was 1.4 billion bushels and the stocks-to-use ratio was 22.5 percent. The 2007-2008 wheat stocks-to-use ratio is projected to be 13.6 percent.
The world's wheat ending stocks are projected to be 4 billion bushels and the stocks-to-use ratio is projected to be 17.8 percent. These are the lowest ending stocks since 1977 when the stocks-to-use ratio was 27.6 percent.
Argentina and Australia's wheat harvest are nearing completion. Argentina and Australia's wheat production have been factored into current prices and there is little chance that anything will happen in Argentina or Australia to impact wheat prices between now and June.
The U.S. winter wheat crop is the next exportable wheat crop to be harvested and the world must have our wheat. Because of this demand, wheat prices should remain relatively high into the July time period.
A U.S. wheat crop above 2.2 billion bushels will probably end up with higher ending stocks and stocks-to-use ratio for the 2008-2009 marketing year. Wheat production below 2.1 billion bushels will probably result in ending stocks about the same as this year.
For prices to decline, an area from the Texas Panhandle to southwestern Oklahoma up through western Kansas must receive rain before a severe freeze, or 60 degree plus days and 20 mile per hour winds.
If the dry areas receive moisture and favorable growing conditions, the KCBT July wheat contract could decline to the low $6 range. Every dry day lowers the odds of the KCBT July contract price going below $7.
At this writing, the best information that money can buy says that the KCBT July wheat contract price during June 2008 will be $7.78. That is where the July contract closed. Experience tells us that, in June 2008, the KCBT could be between $6.50 (or lower) and $9.50 (or higher).
This implies that June 2008 Oklahoma or Texas cash prices could be between about $6 and $9. The market is currently offering about $7.23 (-55¢ basis).
What should a producer do? My answer is nothing!
The reasoning is: for prices to decline, 2008 U.S. wheat production must be higher than current expectations. That means producers will have more wheat to sell at a lower price than is offered today.
If prices go higher, then 2008 production will be lower than is expected today. That implies that producers will have less wheat to sell at a higher price.
Prices and production partially offset each other. The offset is not perfect and the weather and the market does not impact all producers the same.
The other suggestion is, "make decisions that allow you to sleep." If you lie awake worrying about lower prices, price some. If you are going to lie awake worrying about making margin calls — do not hedge.


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|2012-12-24, 12:16
|Link #31501
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Non-insane killers exist. I would dispute that highly. Now, a mass killer is far harder to believe. Possible yes, just hard.
The problem with Yasu is I can't even see a kinda-sane reason to kill anybody individually, but there are characters I could see with motive to kill at least one other (George, Kyrie) or themselves (Krauss, Yasu). Maybe. And nobody has an especially great reason to kill everyone.
If then the alternative is to embrace error, escalating passions, or accident, I will gladly prefer those to ridiculous insanity.
|2012-12-24, 18:25
|Link #31502
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2012
As in the target being the Family, the servants being killed simply due to being servants, furniture, looked down upon by the culprit as well as wanting no survivors or simply to silence them.
Put yourself into the Culprit's shoes, would you keep them alive if you plan to kill the family?
Or for all we know it's like the A,B,C Murders from Agatha Christie.
Spoiler for ABC:
As in:
Spoiler for Perhaps:
|2012-12-24, 20:34
|Link #31504
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
It's possible in the gameboards of Umineko there's space for another solution but I think that, up to the moment in which he finished Ep 7, Will's solution was the right one, the one he wanted us to reach. After all an extra Umineko series wasn't planned in the same way as it isn't planned a follow up to Meakashi-hen.
So, for me, Will's solution of the gameboard is correct not for a matter of being sympathetic but merely because it's a matter of putting a end to things. If I don't plan to disclose extra material that will lead me to a different way I don't need to come up with a different solution.
Of course, in the future, Ryukishi might decide to revise his original idea and write a new Umineko in which we'll learn that the culprit wasn't Yasu but... character X... or actually there was a 19/18 person or actually the murderer were the members of Kyrie's family or whatever.
It's not a problem I feel like worrying about now as, as of now, as far as we know, no such thing exist/will exist.
What however I think can exist are hints about what happened really in Rokkenjima Prime at least in the books Tohya wrote as he probably knows the truth and Ryukishi said it's possible to figure it out.
And, as a third option, it can be it's possible to create a solution Ryukishi hadn't planned and that would still be 'correct' with the datas at hands. It still wouldn't be the intended solution, the one we were supposed to find but I guess there's a possibility it exists.
It's because Yasu as a killer is poorly presented while she's more effective as a writer. For me it's a matter of characterization, not of sympathy.
It's entirely possible to write a story about a person that kills many people and make the reader feel like... well, that guy did something wrong but he had his own reasons. The litterature is plenty of characters like those.
I wouldn't need Yasu to be innocent to feel 'understanding' with her as long as she could have a reason I could grasp and that lead her to snap and do something so wrong.
For example, I can understand how Natsuhi lost it and pushed the servant, although i don't condone her actions.
However Yasu's reasons are so blurry I can't say 'well, in her place I might have lost it as well and done it'.
Plus there's the whole bit of Battler saying that Beato didn't kill anyone in Ep 8, which I like to think is a reference to how the real Yasu didn't kill anyone in the real world (if she inadvertitely caused someone's death, well, that's another matter).
Also, in Ep 6, Beato wasn't capable to kill anyone by herself, not even Natsuhi. It was Battler who did the work for her.
(it'll be pretty ironic if in Prime Yasu tried to kill someone but failed and was attacked, Battler thought that someone was trying to kill her and killed that person to protect her...)
After all it's Maria the one that can give life from 0, not her.
Ep 7 apparently would want us to follow Yasu's story and learn of what broke her and turned her into a killer however as far as I'm involved it fails. It sugar coat the story too much so that when I try to picture in mind mind the extent of Yasu's desperation that pushed her to do so I don't feel like I'm merely following the canon, but as if I'm giving her an extra backstory, as if I'm making up things.
Higurashi in this sense handled things much better in Onikakushi and Meakashi or in the first two murders at the beginning of Tsumihoroboshi. You can see that the characters reached the necessary stress to break and do what they didn't want to do.
In Umineko however it's pretty difficult to rationalize what Yasu did.
In short if, for example, the scenery of EP 7 Teaparty took place Kyrie didn't have to go around killing everyone. She could have said they were having a reunion than wait for the night and escape after turning the bomb on. If she had played well her cards she could have waited enough to have the time to check if the credit card worked and even to hid some ingots in Kuwadorian.
By the way is someone familiar with the movie Knight Moves?
It has a bunch of things that are pretty similar to Umineko. First of all the culprit and the 'detective' knew each other from childhood. The culprit deliberately sent messages to the detective, challenging him to stop him/solve the mystery. The story takes place on an island that, for the culprit, is the world. There's a chess motive and murders follow a certain order (a chess game instead than the epitaph but still). In the taglines the whole thing is referred as a 'game'. The murders take place to send a message to the detective and there's more but it's escaping from my mind right now.
|2012-12-24, 20:53
|Link #31505
Join Date: May 2009
I went over this before, but I see Black Battler as the meta version of a particular type of piece. That is, he represents a "culprit Battler." We distinguish him thus from the "detective Battler" we know from the series. In any given story you can't tell the two apart visually; each is merely "Battler." However, only one can exist at a given point as each story has just one Battler.
He's given a new representation for our purposes, and arguably may have his own meta-existence. He probably wouldn't be a magic character though, as that would kind of give the game away.
|2012-12-24, 21:25
|Link #31506
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Note that in the beginning Beato made clear that Eva-Beatrice and Battler weren't supposed to interact as they were in different worlds.
It'll be interesting to make a division of the characters according to their position:
Bern and Lambda for example are solely meta.
Beato is meta but she's also... 'fantasy' and a piece on the gameboard as she technically resides in Yasu's body.
Gaap is meta and fantasy but she has not a matching piece on the gameboard.
Battler and Erika are pieces but also meta.
hum... it's a bit confusing...
|2012-12-24, 21:31
|Link #31507
Join Date: May 2009
Black Battler takes unusual pleasure in it though and in Forgery No. XXX sort of casts himself in the POV of the piece Battler. It'd be rather confusing if he were nevertheless innocent.
Not that you couldn't do what you described... but anyway.
|2012-12-24, 22:03
|Link #31508
Senior Member
I think this also comments on how the way things are depicted on the gameboard is just limited by one thing, it has to be in order with outside elements. Maria's diary, Eva being alive, the truth being kept from Ange, those are limiters to how to draw Pieces and gameboards. All the elements where any evidence has been lost though is free to design however you want.
There is a truth of the gameboards, but they do not have to be The One Truth...as a human you are allowed to doubt even that.
|2012-12-24, 22:06
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Join Date: Aug 2011
It'll be interesting also to think to an Ep 5 from Erika's point of view with an embodiement of the Natsuhi-culprit theory or a black Natsuhi or a Natsuhi-Beatrice running lose...
|2012-12-24, 22:47
|Link #31510
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Regarding all the ongoing talk about how shitty it is not to have a solution, I found it funny to go overthe Anti mystery vs Anti fantasy TIP again and comparing it with what was said about Mystery literature over the course of time.
I recommend everybody to read it again and consider it.
|2012-12-25, 00:01
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Join Date: May 2009
What he seems to be saying (or hinting at) in the TIP is something along the lines of "Suppose I wrote an answer, and later I changed it. Obviously, that might be right. But suppose I wasn't the one who wrote the new answer. What if some fan came up with an answer that seemed better than mine and everyone became sure that was what I really meant and that answer became 'truth?' Since that can always happen, can you really know 'the answer?'" He's right about this, but he's also wrong about its specific application to Umineko and he's ignoring a very important issue from a literary standpoint.
He uses the example of Higurashi. It should be immediately apparent that the difference he's discussing while writing about his prior work around the time he was partway into writing his current (for the time) work is that, at the time of that writing, Higurashi had an ending. Moreover, it had a rather definite ending; he points out that by the end of the final arc he's revealed who the culprit is and gone over most of their motivations. What he's suggesting is that later he could introduce "undiscovered evidence X" which suddenly proves the culprit's innocence and convicts a new culprit. He suggests we can go on doing this forever because of the uncertainty of truth in an anti-mystery setting.
He is wrong on two points:
Authors who make fewer promises, who raise fewer questions, have a right to answer less and are subject to less scrutiny about ambiguities. "Truth" is not necessarily their objective. In a story about a man's trip to the bank, a mysterious woman he runs into along the way isn't necessarily something that demands an answer. It can act as a source of wonder of course, but it isn't a literary necessity that the author actually identify this person.
Where Umineko runs afoul of this is in cloaking itself in mystery trappings, making affectations of facts and truth being important, touting the value of rationality, and then refusing to actually follow through on confirmation and then reveling in the unsatisfactory approach it took to these things. Had it not styled itself in the manner it did, some of these things would not be that important. Ultimately, a lot of the things I do care about are things I would not care about if the story presented itself philosophically and thematically as something different. You can kill a man in front of the narrator in a war story and not expect me to want to know where that shot came from, because the story is asking me to think about its meaning in a context other than a rational exploration of causes. If you have the narrator rant about those causes immediately after it happens, of course I want to know! And more important, I'm trusting that you as the author are going somewhere with that point.
Resolution itself isn't even necessarily the point. I'm okay with No Country For Old Men. It's a matter of execution and expectations, and I think Ryukishi is trying to hide behind this notion that he was somehow doing something philosophically when I don't believe he actually tried very hard at that kind of thing. I know exactly where he could have taken his points, and I am obligated to fault him for not doing so properly. That's literary criticism and you can disagree, but I don't think my point is invalid and I do think there are significant weaknesses in the story from a literary standpoint, primarily in the second half.
I might have been kinder on Chiru had it been hammering home from the start something along the lines of: "So, you've seen all the evidence already... yep, that's all of it. Can you guess the culprit? You can? Are you sure? After all, there are a number of explanations and there are many things missing. You don't even have a motive. ...You're still sure? Then there's something I want to show you... not facts; we don't have any more of those. But there is still something you haven't yet seen, and it may change your mind..." Essentially, had Chiru been a true "anti-mystery" bookend to the first series's "anti-fantasy" segment, providing an answer to a different question and not concerning itself with the mystery themes it had already tread, I might be inclined to think "Hmm, maybe he's right that saying 'you need to answer X' isn't really the point here, because that was all to make a greater point he's shown me in Chiru."
Now, some of you might well say that what I described is what Chiru is. I think at times it tries to be this, and I think those are the better moments in it. But I do believe it's too hung up on the elements that were laid out before, too focused on information that it really didn't need to give us, and ultimately it feels a bit halfassed and wastes a lot of time. If he didn't want us to have a certain answer and wanted us to be okay with this, Chiru is the point where he can say "OK, I want to present to you this thought through the second half of the story, and see if by the end 'what I want out of this story' is different than it was at the end of Alliance when you were cheering for Battler to strike down the witch." That's essentially Battler's transformative arc between the end of Alliance and the midpoint of End... but the journey becomes muddled and interrupted and distracted. I really, really wanted to follow Battler through the rabbit hole from anti-fantasy to anti-mystery (and maybe to some other point beyond both), but Ryukishi made him too unapproachable, too dissociated. Losing the meta-level dynamic that had carried the series so well ultimately harmed it greatly.
So I don't really want an "arithmetic puzzle game," as he puts it, but I do want a work of literature that is actually worth my time to read and that walks with me to a satisfactory conclusion. Episodes 1-4 gave me that and a ton of promise for what was to come and episodes 5-8 did not deliver. I wouldn't fault Chiru for being "something else," as long as it led me to a coherent and clear point (not necessarily a factual one) using ep1-4 as a proper contrast. It didn't do that; in fact, it toyed with those very same expectations pretty much the whole way through. I'm dissatisfied because it was neither a meaningful explanation of facts and proofs nor a philosophically interesting meditation on the importance of truth in a situation where critical facts are unrecoverable. Either would've worked; treading a middling ground does not.
|2012-12-25, 00:25
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And by this you've shown me that you have not the slightest clue what the anti-mystery genre is about. Either that or your stance is so rigid that Umineko is simply not your cup of tea, because it sees merrits in that what you refuse as pure nihilism.
You see only chaos and destruction in this but Ryukishi saw the endless potential this brings to a genre that was said to have run out of ideas almost 100 years ago.
Going back to that TIP, you are exactly one of those people who approach the world with te idea that everything is a step closer to the truth. I say that we are basically just stumbling about and have to choose what we believe and THAT is what Umineko is about.
You are approaching things in expectation of the conclusion...but honestly, that conclusion might never come.
|2012-12-25, 00:27
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....I especially like that part where he keeps downplaying George. It really remind me on why I stopped trying to re-read the whole series.
|2012-12-25, 01:20
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I'm not sure Ryukishi means what you seem to think he means. If you want to talk platitudes about the "endless potential" that Ryukishi saw but was apparently too incompetent to actually bring forth in his own work, that's really unacceptable. You seem to genuinely believe - or at least are trying to say - that he is a Good Writer making Important Points, yet you are doing nothing but empty name dropping and offering smug suggestions that people go back and look at things without telling them what they're supposed to be looking for. I can no longer tolerate this. It isn't fair to people who throw opinions and suggestions on the line - even stupid ones that they know are stupid - to have people dancing around ever making a point while being so excessively critical of other people that they can't even be assed to read what they write.
If you have a point, then make it. If you want to defend the work, then defend it. If you believe it has done something genuinely praiseworthy, explain what about it deserves praise. If you think it's altering genres, what genre is it altering and how and why is what it's doing admirable? If I don't understand anti-mystery, how about you get off your ass and explain how you define it and why it's important? These are the points on which an argument must turn. If you won't engage them, there's no point in engaging you. We're already quarreling, so it's not like it'd suddenly get ugly if you presented your point in full (and honestly, why should you care what I say?).
If all you're saying is that Ryukishi is observing some things about mysteries and criticizing them... uh, so have lots of people. He isn't special and his ideas are not new. And that by itself is fine. What he does with them is what matters. His work is what he has "done" in that respect. If you want to defend that, go right ahead. If you want to compare it to other works, don't assume we've read them and go in-depth. Maybe you're right. Maybe you're wrong. If you're going to be intentionally vague, how am I ever going to know?
You are not a professor and we do not get assigned homework. Stop saying "I recommend rereading this TIP and comparing it to x and y" and make the comparison yourself. That is unbelievably patronizing and lazy. Make your point and stand behind it, then we can have a discussion about it. I know you're capable of this because you have done so in the past. You really appear to want to say something that you think is important with respect to his earlier essay regarding his objectives for his work. Say it then. But if my position remains that I don't think he actually met his objectives, you cannot just dismiss me as someone for whom the work clearly was not intended. That's not how it works. I already read it and I'm entitled to form an opinion about it. I'm nobody special, but who the hell are you?
|2012-12-25, 03:17
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My problem is that I have often started laying out my position, or wanted to initiate a discussion on what I think could be considered one of the core merits (which is not the same as the intention of the author) of Umineko as a whole. Every time I did that I was either ignored or it seems I expressed it too cryptically, which I am sorry for then.
I'm researching mystery and suspense literature on a cultural comparative level for almost 3 years now, so I assume I have kind of lost the ability to speak of this topic without expecting too much knowledge of my partners in conversation. I should try to better myself in that department, there you are correct.
To make it short, because I'm a little short on time now, I think Umineko is deeply lodged into a very difficult history of genre development in Japan. I understand that especially people outside Japan cannot be expected to know this kind of background, but just as well Umineko can't be blamed to base itself on a background for which it was at least partly constructed. The Western audience was not an immediate aim.
The development of mystery literature in the West within the mainstream is rather easily structured. After Classical Mysteries in the sense of the Golden Age classics (Carr, Queen, Christie etc.) had been deemed old fashioned they were pretty much replaced by hard-boiled fiction and then by the modern police thriller. There is more going on on the independent book-market, but mystery as a puzzler in English fiction mainly exists only as a callback to the Golden Age.
In Japan the classical, orthodox mystery (honkaku misuteri) kept on existing, even though social-critique mysteries (shakai-ha misuteri) started emerging (similar to hard-boiled in the West. But those were not the only ones, next to it exists a large range of different sub-genre to mystery, which never really caught on on the English-speaking market.
There is a huge assortment of research done on mystery fiction in Japan and Ryukishi also seems to draw largely from Kasai Kiyoshi, a famous critic and analyst who released a series of books on topics, themes and literary as well as social commentary in the genre.
For that reason alone I think it is hard to speak about Umineko "in a Western context", because it is removed from many things that the meta-text (not the meta-narrative) refers to. This does make Umineko a locally limited story, but I think it doesn't actually limit it's possibilities.
The term Anti-Mystery in itself, as used by Ryukishi, is a term that was coined in Japan by the critics and philosophers Sato Shinji and Haniya Yutaka, to refer to the 3 Big Strange Novels, Dogura Magura (which creates a perspective-riddled loop-narrative that defies a solution), The Mansion of the Black Death (which goes into the detective being being able to form a 'perfect solution' that is not the 'truth') and An Offering to Nothingness (which brings up the story-within-a-story meta-structure and is therefore often likened to Umineko). It was used to refer to a style of mystery novels that used the form of a reasoning-based mystery story (suiri shousetsu) to criticize this subgenre.
You are therefore correct when you say that Umineko was not the first to do this, but it was among the first (if not the first) to actually include the reader as a narrative device into the text and that's what makes it fascinating for me. Due to the meta-narrative being bound to our world we are connected to the narrative itself and become a powerful influence on the way we and others view the text.
In that sense, likening the comparison Ryukishi made in the aforementioned TIP to science is wrong, I think. This is not about denying the progress of science, it is denying the absoluteness of human made truth, which is not the same as denying truth in itself.
Jaques Lacan, a french philosopher and psychoanalyist (who is often used in analysis of mystery literature), divided reality and real into two separate realms. Reality is that which we construct, the momentary truth that we built from the evidence we have at our hands, the real is that which exists around us, the culmination of everything in the world. No human can have access to everything and in a narrative the author is God and decides which elements of this real we have access to.
Even if our solution is wrong in the grand scheme of things that does not make it wrong at this very moment. Or to liken it to prosecution, sentencing somebody based on evidence is not wrong, but it can always turn out later that the evidence was incomplete, faked or just analyzed in a wrong way.
It boils down to the question, what is a fair game and who are actually the opponents.
If we readers among each other are opponents, as in the case of most classical mystery stories, then the author is obligated to present all clues necessary to reach the intended solution, because else it could happen that no winner comes out in the end. In that case the author is merely the judge of a race.
If the author is our opponent, wouldn't it be like hacking of your legs at the beginning of a race to ensure that your opponent has a definite chance of winning? This is just my opinion, so people who prefer the classical mystery where the chance to win is definitely given are entitled to their concept, but I think Umineko's take on a game between the reader and the author casts this into a new light not often considered before (because before the advent of the internet author-reader communication was limited).
If people actually answer to this post I'll gladly reply or even take this to another place. If not I'll just gladly stop
|2012-12-25, 03:54
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I suppose the difference is that I am willing to accept things like the flimsy motives (either as me not being made to understood or them being genuinely flimsy) because I felt knowing the motive of the gameboard was good enough, even if it sucked for a real life reason. I guess this is where all criticism runs into opinion. I enjoyed the novel enough and thought it had some fresh ideas (maybe just my lack of experience) that I can forgive the remaining problems. I can even justify them by saying something like "well, the point from the start was you can only truly solve games" (though I'd be making it up). You are disappointed because you thought it could have been amazing, and I am happy because I thought it was great
Of course obviously you still thought it was pretty good yourself, otherwise you wouldn't stalk the halls of this forum like the well-read inquisitor you are. (Oh god, I guess that makes me early Battler, all heart and no brain).
|2012-12-25, 07:15
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A chain that is passed down from one person to another which can only be seen with love instead of hate.
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|2012-12-25, 09:17
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Well, that part isn't unique to the manga; it's in the VN too. And I don't think the point is that the black witch is actually meant to correspond to Eva specifically; the black witch represents the concept of 'black magic' (people trying to make themselves happy by pushing their pain on to others) itself, and it's implied that Ange only sees this witch as Eva because she is still the person that Ange most associates with that kind of hatred.
In fact, in the VN it's flat out stated that the black witch is not Eva herself. It's just a representation of the destructive hatred of Eva, Kasumi and humanity in general.
|2012-12-25, 10:42
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It is possible to criticize the mystery genre in particular ways in light of this kind of understanding or merely in challenge to the type of understanding the genre presents. But that's not by itself what I'm talking about. My question is more what is the point that's being made in the text about this and how well does it follow through on making that point.
It's not sufficient (for an author; it's sufficient for you) to merely say "here's a genre work that is critical of the genre." What is it criticizing? Is it right? What exactly does it want me to think about? Looking at Umineko through this lens, I think I can see the various points the author did want to provide this sort of running dialogue... but I also fault the answers he did and didn't provide. I honestly don't think it's really fair to compare it to the examples you've given (although I've not read most of them), because I think we're dealing with an author who at best tried to convey some of these better-explored-by-others notions to an audience he knew would be largely less familiar with them. That may not have been his original intention up until Turn came out.
The point is, whatever he did do, I'm not convinced he did it well. You're speaking here very generally, so it's difficult for me to point to a specific example of a thing you think he did do well and explain why I agree or disagree (as I don't think he did everything badly). But my point is that if you're arguing that he wrote the work in a manner that only someone like you could fully appreciate it... then he still failed even if you appreciate it, because he had other readers and he wasn't very good at warning those people away. In fact, it seems like he tried very hard to win them back at the cost of compromise.
More to the point, I also don't care. If his goal was to introduce a genre and dialogue about it, he didn't do enough of it. If his goal was merely to write a satisfactory story, I wasn't particularly satisfied. I can see bits and pieces of the story that could have been, but I have no idea if it's the story he would have done or if this was his intention all along. I was fine with his limited-scale criticism on the genre by the end of Alliance, but in End and Dawn he reduced it to a caricature of itself and kept beating up on it when I'd already long since gotten his point. Maybe a lot of readers didn't, but I think it was made competently by ep4 or so.
I was expecting him to do something with that from that point on. And at times he seemed to be teasing that spectacularly (at least in parts of Requiem and Twilight). The more experimental, ephemeral, uncertain and criticized parts of ep7 were in fact my favorites, like Will's investigation, the stage play, or the Tea Party; parts that convey "information," like the interviews, submarine story, or Yasu narration, were largely groaners. I wanted to see some Young Kinzo stuff, but mostly to get a sense of his motives. I really didn't need an origin story for the gold, especially not a ridiculous one. Now, it would've been interesting were that story significantly challenged to make a point (would you accept such a ridiculous thing if this was its origin, but if not, why would you accept it really existing 40 years later?), but we get like one panel to even touch upon that very intriguing idea.
Maybe that's something he wanted to do, but it doesn't appear he did. Whatever his ultimate objective was, however, he seems to have pursued it in opposition to writing a coherent overall story. He took too many of his enjoyably-crafted literary devices away from us and what he replaced it with was often less complex and not very well challenged. Roles became more stark, characters became less approachable and apprehensible, and he ignored a large chunk of complexity until Twilight, where I feel he just didn't do enough. Again, there could have been a point intended in doing this; it isn't wrong to break up the main interaction dynamic halfway in, but you have to be doing something with that. I get his plan to some extent but I don't think he executed it, and then it got patched up in a very strange way.
None of these criticisms are about Umineko and its relationship to the mystery genre. These are about Umineko solely as a work of fiction in isolation. Obviously you're claiming it's a work of fiction with things to say about a genre, and I don't deny it. But I'm honestly not seeing what it actually says that's so impressive, and apparently you're the only person who has enough background to know. So by all means, tell me. I just don't know that it will do much to alter my perspective on the overall work, because what you're talking about and what I'm talking about don't appear to really be the same issues. Still, perhaps I'm missing the point that he actually did make, and you can convince me he did so competently, even if I don't like it.
|2012-12-25, 11:27
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My problem is with the gameboard world.
He gives us a solution for it and the solution is the culprit is Yasu. This solution have a point in reference to the meta layout, it has a motive but... if we look solely the gameboards the motive becomes way too weak.
To make things clearer: I could have figured Kyrie wanted to kill Asumu to get Rudolf but I would have never figured out Shannon, who have already two people courting her, wanted to kill everyone in such an elaborate manner due to holding a grudge about a promise Battler made when he was 12.
I'm not saying she couldn't, just that there weren't elements enough to think that she would do this. It feels as if I went to talk to a medieval time man and wanted him to guess I've a computer at home. Once I'll tell him I've one he can believe I've a box that's not magic but that can show me pictures, audio and datas from other places but it's hard he would guess it and, even if it did, it would be more like trying out a fantasy answer to him that making a guess or a reasoning using logic.
As if this wasn't bad enough some things in the dynamic of his solution still seems not to make sense.
I'm fine with him not presenting all the elements to the solution as long as I could figure them out.
In Ep 1 Shannon wasn't really in the shed? I could have thought at it, I could have figured out Hideyoshi was an accomplice, I could have figured out whatever Battler saw that made him think there was a body there could have actually be something else.
In Ep 2 I could have figured out that the stomachs had been carved to hide the people had been shot. In Ep 3 there's also some rambling about how it's better if a witch doesn't use guns which could be viewed as a hint about how, when a witch uses guns, she has to hide this fact with tricks.
However I can't figure out how Yasu managed to play the role of Shannon and Kanon for 3 years, the first of them surely without accomplices.
I offered a solution that, for me, could work but... there's nothing in Umineko to support or deny it, especially in the first 4 episodes, and it's not minor problem to prove if ShKanon was possible (In fact I reasoned it out after Ep 7, when I learnt about how Yasu created her fantasy friends).
Ryukishi invited us to try and find the solution to Umineko, he even said we could have done it after Ep 4, Chiru being all extra hints, so I think, in his own mind it was possible to reach the solution he intended without waiting for additional info and that he didn't plan to create a late queen problem however when I watch Umineko I feel that in some things I'm like a first grade who's presented with an equation by an older kid.
To him it can be pretty easy to solve it but, for me, I miss the necessary knowledge and if that kid was a teacher he should know he handed me a problem I couldn't solve.
Ironically in Ep 8 manga version when George and Jessica makes the same quiz they did to Ange in the visual novel, Ange choses the wrong answer as expected.
It's not that she hadn't thought at the answer, it's that with her knowledge she could find the right answer only out of random luck and not out of reasoning.
I can completely accept that I would have never managed to solve the epitaph. I would have never figured where Kinzo's beloved hometown was witht he first 4 episodes, in the atlas we've here there's no info about railways and anyway part of the quiz involved kanji and my Japanese knowledge is way too low to make things work.
If that's why I'm unsatisfied by some parts of Umineko who instead seem very clear and simple to a Japanese audience well, I guess there's no way around it.
It's nobody's fault if I wasn't Umineko's intended audience.
For example you've gotten me definitely curious about 'An Offering to Nothingness' but sadly this book hasn't been translated it so I can't really use it to improve my judgement of Umineko.
So it's not that I don't want to answer to your posts or that I find them boring, it's simply you're talking of something I don't know, I can't get to know as of now and over which therefore I can't reply.
Any chance you can further semplificate things for people who can't get such a wide mystery knowledge or is it asking too much?
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