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Pilates is a system of controlled exercises that engage the mind and condition the entire body. It is a balanced mix of strength and flexibility training that improves posture, reduces stress and creates long, lean muscles without bulking up. Pilates works several muscle groups simultaneously through smooth, continuous movements, with a focus on strengthening and stabilizing the core (the abdominals, buttocks and back muscles often described by Joseph Pilates as the "powerhouse"). Pilates concentrates on quality of movement rather than quantity, leaving you feeling invigorated rather than exhausted after a class. Pilates principles can be applied to any daily activities allowing the body function more efficiently.
Pilates is suitable for men and women of virtually any age, fitness level and body condition. can be adapted, modified and customized for individual needs.
Results are very individual, but even after one session most people experience a heightened awareness of their body, particularly posture. With regular, consistent practice you will gain increased strength and tone in your 'core' muscles that help to correct posture : Abdominals, buttocks and back muscles. Pilate sis also a mind/body exercise which leaves you feeling confident, alert and energised.
The classes are held at different studios around HK including Central, Wanchai and Midlevels. Please check out the schedule and studio addresses at www.rhplus-studio.com
No more than 12 people are in the group so that each student receives individual attention.
How long does the class last ?
1 hour (HKU classes 1hr 15mins)
How much do the classes cost ?
10 weeks.
If for any reason you miss your regular class you can make it up at any of the other classes within the 10 week course period. Or if you choose to pay for another course of 10, any missed classes can be carried forward and taken as extras.
Normally there are no classes on public holidays however if the teacher is available to teach and there are enough students who would like a class, a special class is sometimes arranged.
What happens during bad weather ?
All classes will be cancelled if black rain cloud or typhoon signal 8 is hoisted or about to be raised.


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Display Cases in the Great Hall
February 14th, 2015 - March 21st, 2015
When William Hempel returned to New York after seven years living abroad, he was struck by the casual and constant use of insults. This series of paintings emerged from his experience of language, and its permutations, as the artist experienced harsh words in common parlance, called out loud on streets among friends and strangers every day in public and private in the City.
Each small painting has the same dimensions. The panel depths vary, implying the hurt of the words, how deeply they penetrate as they are uttered. Contained on the handcrafted wooden panel is a single word, appearing in the top register of a two-color field, lovingly painted with stencil. The act of stenciling the words on carefully prepared panels, in rich colors of diverse media, is an echo of mechanical repetition of these words in daily speech, where it is all too easy to repeat such insults. Yet Hempel makes them into icons, with care, restoring and reframing meaning. The contrast between harsh intent, and sensitive or careful transmission of words onto prepared ground, reiterates the loving transfer of what is spoken and experienced into a written word, created in rich clear tones and old master materials.
Case One:
FOOL, shellac, gesso, poppy oil, matte damar varnish, 2" deep
IDIOT, oil primer, cold wax, 2" deep
JERK, oil primer, stand oil, 2.5" deep
Case Two:
SHITHEAD, glue, gesso, safflower oil, retouch varnish, 1" deep
ASSHOLE, glue, oil emulsion gesso, walnut oil, gloss damar varnish 1.5" deep
SCUMBAG, glue, gesso, casein, casein varnish, 1.5" deep
All 10 x 10 inch wooden panels.
All Works Courtesy of the Artist.
Artist website
Curated by Lisa A. Banner
Display Cases Exhibition Archive
January 7th, 2015 - February 13th, 2015
LUCIFER'S KISS: Photograms by TR ERICSSON
Lucifer was the Latin name given to the brightest star in the ancient Roman sky, the light we now identify with the planet Venus. The first light in the night sky, it is often seen low on the horizon just after sunset. Ericsson plays with the subsequent interpretation of Lucifer as the favored angel who falls from grace, becoming identified with forces of darkness. In these photograms, Lucifer brings light to the paper, revealing a woman's form, fashioning her contours against glossy black.
Playing with light and dark, edges and shadows, Ericsson manipulates both muse and medium to create a sensuous and luminous image. Like rings of smoke etched in light, tendrils of hair dance around the woman's head. In Lucifer, the strings of light evoke a fireball falling into the open hand below. Lucifer's Kiss reveals the muse's body in white light against the glossy darkness. Lucifer Falling is a poetic embrace, where light is wrapped around darkness, tickling and entering the shadows. Lucifer (Black Diamond) blurs light into surrender in intermingled forms.
The Lucifer series of photograms reveals a departure from Ericsson's previous surrealist drawings objectifying the nude, inspired by Marcel Duchamp's voyeuristic late work, Étant donné. Counterpoint to Bruce Conner's Angels, Ericsson's photograms explore heavenly and earthly natures, allowing fiery illumination to caress darkness. Lucifer embraces and seduces the viewer with light.
Case One: Lucifer's Kiss, Lucifer
Case Two: Lucifer Falling, Lucifer (Black Diamond)
All photograms, 24 x 20 inches, printed on
resin-coated Ilford paper
All works Courtesy of the Artist and Robert Koch Gallery
Artist website
Curated by Lisa A. Banner
October 6th, 2014 - January 6th, 2015
EPHEMERAL PIGMENTS: Polaroids by Beatrice Pediconi
Beatrice Pediconi's Ephemeral Pigments is a series of polaroids of paintings on water, documenting her spirit moving over the liquid tableau. Using a different medium each time, sometimes paint, sometimes egg, sometimes pigment and oils, she circulates images into a basin of water, dropping viscous liquids into a receptive tray filled with water, coloring the movement and ripples on the surface, with these intense and delicious substances. At times they are suspended like a meniscus on the surface, at times they form shapes, and then dissolve, trailing tails behind.
The movement of the artist's hand over the water, her gesture, is recorded in the three poetic series of polaroids. Each series varies in materials and effect, as the water is seen from different angles, altering the light and colors. Her most recent series, One More Than Nine, floats subsequent layers of pigment onto the previous ones, adding complexity in the hues, depth and intensity of color. The cumulative effect of liquid trails in red, white and black, swirls of oil paint interact and intersect, creating pink, and curling into Fibonacci-curved memories of paths the artist traced over water.
Ascending the Staircase
Case One:
Ephemeral Pigments: One More Than Nine
polaroids, 4 x 5 inches
Case Two:
Ephemeral Pigments: Red,
and Untitled polaroids, 4 x 5 inches
Download checklist here
All works courtesy of the Artist
Artist website
Curated by Lisa A. Banner
August 8th - October 6th, 2014
NORWAY: Small works on Paper
Michael Kirk's intimate pastels and watercolors were made on trips he took to Norway. Tender reflections of majestic landscapes, made on site as he traveled through Norway's fjords and mountains, many of the small works later inspired larger paintings and drawings when he returned to his studio. They convey his immediate responses to Norwegian landscape. His own words describe his impressions:
Lofoten, an archipelago within the Artic Circle, mountainous islands reach out into the Norwegian Sea. In late May the "midnight sun" floats along the horizon. Dusk becomes dawn; one day runs into the next. I was working with pastels using my fingers to grind pigment into pigment. This physical act extends my being directly into the paper. The work is not driven by conscious thought, rather by a series of sensations and the rhythm of my hands responding to the moment.
Jøtunheimen then further north and west along the fjords: Small works are sometimes done while traveling in a car. The work threads the shifting landscape till everything suddenly merges. It's a transformative state, a chrysalis. Whether traveling or working in situ, there is always movement in the terrain and in the play of light, form and shadow. The fragility of the materials of paper, pastel, watercolor, make visible the internal conversation between perception and expression.
Oslofjord: There was a visual rage before me and I was consumed by what I was seeing and my whole being was wrapped inside of it. As I sat working it no longer mattered how the patterns changed, though they kept shifting I knew what I wanted to hold on to. What I saw moments before was no longer and that seemed to parallel my own sense of vulnerability, how something could be there and then in an instant be gone.
Case One and Case Two
Small works in pastels and watercolors on paper, dating from 1991, 1999, 2013, 2014; dimensions variable. Download checklist here
All works courtesy of the Artist
Curated by Lisa A. Banner
June 20th to August 8th, 2014
As a photographer and a filmmaker, Dean Dempsey plays with questions of identity by masking his figures, removing them from our gaze with layers and adornment, or by placing them into carefully arranged tableaus that reveal a multiplicity of meanings.
In his film Dreamsequence, women are posed in diferent rooms that suggest a dramatic stage set. One kneels on the floor in an empty room filling with balloons that drop randomly from the ceiling, and later sits in a chair, lifting her face to a shower of golden glitter raining down upon her skin. The other perches on a chair in a bay window, naked except for the paint on her face, and the tulle enveloping her lower limbs. She moves without speaking, holding a bird in a cage. In the close ups of their faces shown here, they appear as though they are remembered from a dream.
One is dazzled, her eyes closed, and her skin coated with gold glitter. The other, looking directly at the viewer, is masked in a slick opaque Kabuki paint, the thickness of the red ink layered onto smooth skin. Tulle covers her shoulder and bust and frames the face from below. The installation features these photographs in the cases, seen through clouds of colored tulle, loosely bound with soft white or black ribbons. Red threads hold the veils of tulle in knots, and the tulle forms a frame to the photographs, like transparent baroque curtains framing the portrait subjects.
These film stills are moments caught in time. Printed on two sheets, they form halves of a whole face, one glossy color, and one black and white on thin paper. A ribbon divides the faces where two sheets meet. In the beds of the cases under glass, and gauzy tulle, the faces appear as if taken from memory, part of the evanescent dream sequences we share.
Case One:
Film Still, multimedia archival prints
Case bound with tulle, thread, binding tapes and ribbon
Case Two:
Film Still, multimedia archival prints
Case bound with tulle, thread, binding tapes and ribbon
All works Courtesy of the Artist and BOSI Contemporary
Artist website
Curated by Lisa A. Banner
May 4, 2014 - June 16, 2014
HUNTED: Gouache Drawings by Eliana Pérez
Domestic intranquilities form the subjects of this series of gouache drawings by Colombian artist Eliana Pérez, executed as a continuous numbered series with point of brush on deckled edge paper. Animals inhabit an interior and domestic landscape, coming to life and interacting with their environment. A group of branches in a vase waves cautiously as if bent by wind toward an unseen place, breaking into pieces and wispy fragments for no apparent reason. A slipcover begins to growl as if ready for attack. A hidden dragon slithers to life in the folds of a drapery, leaving fire in its wake. An archer shoots at a trophy stag from the
comfort of his decorative pose on an ovoid telephone table. A flock of birds twitter against
the back of a sofa. A living room is submerged in standing water, colorless, and linear. A
blue mattress, its coils exposed, floats away on an ocean of coiled lines. The images form a
personal narrative of disquiet.
Pérez describes the Hunted drawings in this way, noting that they are numbered, rather than named:
"In Hunted, the patterns on furniture, rugs and curtains come to life, transforming these objects of domestic comfort into portals expressing a pervasive world of savagery and violence. In these drawings the hunters revel in the thrill of dominance, while the prey struggle in fear and agony. The scenes make tangible a thin layer of noise, always present but not always apparent in modern life. The images interrupt the ostensible serenity of the home, like the violence on the television, domestic disquiet, and daily news of war." Her gaze is at once lyrical and ferocious, as she presents these snapshots of animated interaction within a place that normally seems peaceful and undisturbed by the intrusion of the wild, and untame d side of nature.
Case One:
1-4, all drawings gouache on paper, 15 x 11 inches
Case Two:
5-9, all drawings gouache on paper, 15 x 11 inches
Hunted 7 is 11 x 15 inches
All works Courtesy of the Artist
Artist website
Curated by Lisa A. Banner
March 24, 2014 - May 3, 2014
WOLF: Constructions in Wood and Mirror by Jongil Ma
Jongil Ma is intrigued by the delicate social relationships between friends and inside social groups. As an immigrant to the United States from Korea in 1996, his continued fascination with these interactions has led him to create an art practice that embraces sculpture and installation to create interactive spaces. Working in both large-scale monumental sculpture and intimate conceptual pieces, he brings sensitivity and power to his work. Because he wants to break through the confining divisions between audience and artist, he asks a wide range of participants to bring their own concerns to transform his pieces.
As he describes in his own words: "As I observe myself changing in order to better relate to the sensitivities and subtle forms of communication of this society, I return to this fascination. I desire a way to more directly contact other people's hidden understandings. I believe that this very particular energy creates a unique aesthetic language and evolves out of a practical need. The Wolf project begins with images I find and alter to fit different situations. In this piece I have arranged a face of wolf along with a partially assembled paper cut-out target on the mirror. As the viewer's reflection changes and is altered within this piece, I hope that they experience a moment of participation and psychological engagement.
For years, my work's primary focus has been large-scale woven wooden sculptural installations. In these as well as in this small-scale, model-like piece, the wood strips are subject to physical pressure and stress evoking conflicting sensations. The tension of the gracefully curved lines, delicate joints, and temporal forms speak to the fragility of human relationships as well as to the balance in nature. A partially clear translucent Plexiglas covers the piece, as if to both contain and blur its edges. The experience relates to the momentary disorientation one feels on the boundary between waking life and vivid dreaming.
Case One:
Sculpture construction in bent and woven bamboo strips, covered in plexiglass
23 5/8 x 42 x 5 inches
Case Two:
Mirror and cut paper strips
27 x 50 inches
All works Courtesy of the Artist
Artist website
Curated by Lisa A. Banner
February 1, 2014 - March 17, 2014
Wishes: Horses
Horses are powerful, atavistic creatures, symbols of freedom, speed, and sensitive response. This exhibition of horse drawings spans two important dates connected to the imagery of Irish painter Timothy Hawkesworth: 1 February 2014 marks the beginning of the Year of the Horse, the seventh sign of the Chinese zodiac and an auspicious year recognizing the power and primal nature of the horse. The end date of the exhibition, 17 March marks Saint Patrick's Day, named for the patron saint of Ireland, where Timothy Hawkesworth grew up on a farm and began his relationship with horses.
Hawkesworth's horses are energetic and rapidly drawn with graphite over wax and paint on paper, moving from right to left, galloping, rearing, and walking with heads bowed, raised or thrown back in restless movement. Evoking the animal nature with figurative representations, like Susan Rothenberg's horses from the 1970s, Hawkesworth infuses a personal vision in these drawings, and taps into a source of infinite fascination: domesticated animals that retain a wild and untamed spirit. Like Eadweard Muybridge's early photographic studies of horses in motion, a series of these monochromatic drawings present a sequence of dramatic movement that belies their small size. Hawkesworth often speaks of the "rigor of wildness," a sort of alignment with the core of creativity within oneself, or a spine that holds the energy and freedom of the creature in motion. His horses embody this concept with their delicate layering and gobs of paint dabbed onto a small paper support. With gestural strokes of graphite, he gives these tiny horses a physical weight on the page, adding substance to what are otherwise outlines extracted from memory, implying motion and freedom.
Growing up on a farm in Northern Ireland, Hawkesworth's experience of horses informed much of how he saw the world, and how he began to respond to it through painting. Donald Kuspit has written that "Hawkesworth's art is about the uncanniness of suffering." In his own words, Hawkesworth gives profound emphasis to the power of the animals to transform his human response:
"I grew up short sighted - my eyes blurred with cataracts. Horses helped me see. Animals of flight, they are programmed to be well informed, ready to go, no separation between thought and action, message and response. The vibration of energy through their body, through my hands and my legs, gave me a special read on the natural world. I was taught attentiveness. How I was shown made me a painter and what I was shown, gave me my content."
Case One: Left to Right
Small Horse Drawing #6, 2012, 4 x 6 inches
Small Horse Drawing #2, 2012, 4 x 6 inches
Small Horse Drawing #7, 2012, 4 x 6 inches
Small Horse Drawing #4, 2012, 4 x 6 inches
Case Two: Left to Right
Small Horse Drawing #5, 2012, 4 x 6 inches
Horse #4, 2012, 12 x 14 inches
Small Horse Drawing #3, 2012, 4 x 6 inches
All works are oil, graphite, and wax on paper
All works courtesy of the artist and Littlejohn Contemporary
Artist website
Curated by Lisa A. Banner
November, 2013- January 17th, 2014
Alabaster and Albacore
Christopher Smith's Alabaster and Albacore is a series of lush and velvety photographic prints, showing proposed video installations in the interiors of recognizable landmarks and public spaces, including the James B. Duke House. In this body of work Smith engages themes of transience and permanence, movement and color, nature and displacement.
Taking elements of color and bubbles from his ongoing "Painter Project," Smith transforms them, draping them over the railings of staircases, suspending them from the skylights and floating them across the floor toward the viewer. Using techniques attuned classic films like as director Carol Reed's "Odd Man Out (1947, Two Cities film), Jean-Luc Godard's "Two or Three Things I Know About Her," (1967, Argos Films), or Martin Scorsese's 1976 classic, "Taxi Driver," Smith hones in on the bubbles floating in front of the camera as visual metaphors for the transience of life, the fragility of the moment. Bubbles and the splashes that rise where they pop become classic, universal and timeless metaphors placed into familiar contexts with dramatic impact.
A floor flooded with red paint and blue bubbles forms a liquid carpet sliding underfoot, lit by the fires in chandeliers and sconces along the marble walls. Smith offers an intimate scene of warmth and protection, while a narrow door opens to a sunlit window beyond, revealing a slit of green light entering the darkened room. Shadows and reflections are soaked in blood red, shimmering phosphorescent green and opaque turquoise blue.
Floating the idea of suspension and creation within these prints, and bathing it in the radiant glow of night vision goggles, Smith probes a simple mystery through these admixtures of color and form, finding creamy white or vividly colored substance in unusual places. The Alabaster series focuses on translucent white light, with hues of pale gold, flesh pink, blue and violet gleaming over edges and shaded surface, while the Albacore series presents vivid carnal colors emerging from darkness.
Each photographic print suggests a projection by the artist into a hidden interior, some clean and open, some darkened and dimly lit. Smith creates views of imagined beauty, allowing the unseen to become real. Using projection techniques, manipulating surfaces, his eye slides over domestic and public interiors. Formed with life and movement, these unusual intrusions open known spaces into fantastic and poetic new places, smooth and transparent or fleshy and potent.
Case One: Alabaster
Left to right and top to bottom
Alabaster 002
Alabaster 004
Alabaster 001
Alabaster 005
Alabaster 004
Case Two: Albacore
Left to right and top to bottom
Albacore 001
Albacore 002
Albacore 003
Albacore 004
Albacore 005
All works courtesy of the artist
Artist website
Curated by Lisa A. Banner
The inaugural exhibition:
September 15th - October 31st
Flowers of the Sky
Flowers of the Sky is a series of life-size botanical paintings on the folios of an 18th century astronomy text, dismantled and then reassembled into an accordion-fold artist book. The transformation of the text of James Ferguson's Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles (1799) began in response to a Victorian astronomy book entitled Flowers of the Sky in the archive of the John Work Garrett Library at Johns Hopkins University.
As the artist describes, the fluid yet tenuous painting on the book pages is analogous to a fragile web or distant constellation. For Smith, flowers are symbols of our selves and of nature, as well as a metaphor for the machinations of the universe. Implicitly, book folios serve as multivalent supports for the painted leaves and flowers that adorn them with color and design imposed over printed words.
In the works on view with Flowers of the Sky, William Smith manipulates the intimate setting of a book page, a small-scale print or piece of paper, and approaches landscape as a response to the pages and their text, or the words found there. At times he reveals and at times obscures the words on the page. His visual language consists of representations of reflection, dissolving surfaces, hidden meaning, and impenetrability. Combining this language with the eloquence of a natural landscape, Smith reflects the tensions between ordered and accidental marks, or the absence of human presence with the implicit sense of human touch in a painted surface.
Flowers of the Sky, 2003, oil paint on printed book pages from James Ferguson, Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, 1799.
Also on view:
Silence, 2007, oil paint on printed book page
Untitled, 2007, oil paint on printed book page
Solitude, 2007, oil paint on printed book page
Of the Division of Time, 2007, oil paint on printed book pages:
p. 363 and p. 368
All works courtesy of the artist and Littlejohn Contemporary
Artist website
Curated by Lisa A. Banner
Upcoming Event
April 13, 2015, 5:30 – 6:30 PM
"Conceptual Space: Artist Installations in the Display Cases"
A Conversation with TR Ericsson, Beatrice Pediconi, Dean Dempsey, Jongil Ma, Christopher Smith
Moderated by Curator Lisa A. Banner
Introduced by Linda Mai Green, IFA Student
By invitation only.
Display Cases Artists in the News
TR Ericsson is featured in the Huffington Post. "The 21 Art Exhibitions You'll Be Talking Bout This Year" looks forward to Ericsson's upcoming show at the Cleveland Art Museum.
Beatrice Pediconi exhibition on view at the Maison Particulière in Brussels.

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Google Sued over Street View Imaging Program
A Franklin Park, Pennsylvania couple is suing Google, Inc., for violating their right to privacy with the company's Street View program.
Aaron and Christine Boring filed papers on April 2 with the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, seeking $25,000 in punitive damages for mental anguish and diminished property value.
The couple has included in their court papers a request to have the photos of their house erased from the Street View database.
The case originated in June 2007 when Google began sending vans across the United States to capture digital images for its online mapping program.
The Borings say one of the reasons they moved to Franklin Park, a suburb of Pittsburgh, was seclusion from high amounts of traffic. The entrance to their street is marked as private by the street's residents, to avoid solicitation.
Privacy Concerns
The couple became concerned when they noticed detailed photos of their swimming pool on Google. They believe the photos could not have been taken from a public street and decided to seek legal action.
The official complaint filed with the Allegheny County Common Pleas Court states the family's concerns. "The acts of Defendant Google constitute an intentional and/or grossly reckless invasion on Plaintiffs' seclusion," the argument states. "To drive up Plaintiffs' driveway and stop in proximity to the residence, garage and swimming pool, Defendant significantly disregarded Plaintiffs' privacy interest."
Dennis Moskal, the couple's attorney, has stated publicly the company has little accountability for its Street View program without legal action.
Public Use Permissible
The case brought by the Borings faces the problem of "final use" of the photos, according to Professor Kenneth Hirsch of Duquesne University's School of Law.
"Existing law protects people from the uninvited publication of the picture for profit, but not from the uninvited publication of their picture in a news story," Hirsch said. "If that action violates individual rights, how about a telephone listing that is not consented to in advance, or public listing of names and addresses on tax rolls?"
The Allegheny County Office of Property Assessments Web site has photos similar to those available via Google Street View, but Moskal says there is a significant difference between the public photos taken by county assessors and Google's pursuit of close photos on a private road.
The county's photos of the Boring property were taken near the time of purchase on October 10, 2006 as part of a countywide assessment process.
New Laws Unlikely
Legislative action by Congress or the state legislature is unlikely, says Michael J. Madison, a University of Pittsburgh law professor. He said, "The program is pretty new, and the scale of the benefits and harms not well established." Madison noted, "any legislation runs a substantial risk of doing more harm than good."
Robert Atkinson of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation agrees. "People should expect that their activities in public may be recorded and that these recordings may find their way online," he said.
The foundation's president, Dr. Ronald Atkinson, offered a similar view. "Individuals should be able to maintain a certain degree of privacy, even in public, which is why we have laws against stalking and harassment," he noted. But he places Google Street View into a category of "benign tools" that "should not be banned simply because they come with some risk."
Remedies Available
Representatives of Google, Inc. have stated in several interviews the case has no merit because there is an established process for removing photos from the Web site.
An individual pictured on Google Street View can request removal by providing his or her name, address, and Street View address and a sworn statement of accurate information and valid photo ID.
Google's policy includes a provision stating that the firm "will temporarily remove the Street View image pending receipt of your ID verification. If we have not received ... your photo ID within five days, then we will restore the panorama back to Street View."
The Borings' suit is the first brought against Google for its Street View Program.
Nicholas Katers (firstname.lastname@example.com) writes from Franklin, Wisconsin.


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Yes, WikiLeaks Led to the Revolt in Tunisia. At least according to New York Times editor Bill Keller, who just last week blasted WikiLeakes chief Julian Assange in a massive profile, calling him "arrogant, thin-skinned, conspiratorial and oddly credulous.
" But that doesn't mean the work Assange's organization does can't spur political change. "The simple nuts and bolts answer to that is, in the case of the Wikileaks cables in Tunisia, Wikileaks certainly did make a difference," Keller told NPR today. Overseas Press Club of America. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange In recent weeks, the news has been dominated by the Wikileaks disclosure of classified State Department documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Most recently, in the name of freedom of speech, defenders of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange have been mounting hacking attacks on those trying to disavow him, ranging from Amazon.com and PayPal (for cutting off Wikileaks access) to the Swedish prosecutor who accuses him of rape. New York Times Editor Bill Keller Says Julian Assange Was 'Arrogant' and 'Conspiratorial' (Newser) – New York Times editor Bill Keller's lengthy essay on dealing with WikiLeaks and Julian Assange continues to ricochet around the blogosphere, with most of the attention focused on his not-so-flattering assessment of Assange as a person.
He describes the WikiLeaker as "arrogant, thin-skinned, conspiratorial, and oddly credulous" and says Assange became "transformed by his outlaw celebrity. " The WikiLeaks' honcho went from an unkempt "office geek" type to a "cult figure" with styled hair and a penchant for "fashionably skinny suits and ties," writes Keller. He also describes the falling-out that occurred between the newspaper and the "conspiratorial" Assange, defends his paper's journalistic motives, suspects "the impact of WikiLeaks on the culture has probably been overblown," and, despite the frayed relations, thinks it's "chilling to contemplate" government persecution of WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks tweeted that the essay is another "self-serving smear. " Bill Keller vs Wikileaks: Goodnight, Julian Assange, And Bad Luck. I'm loath to write again about Wikileaks, or about its pig-to-man founder, Julian Assange.
Not because I've run out of things to say, but because the response is so predictable when I do. Within minutes, the Assange fanboys – the Wikiliebers, if you like – will swarm into the comments, accusing me of unfairly slandering their hero. "He's sticking it to The Man!" Bill Keller: Colluding With WikiLeaks Was Fun at First, Then Annoying. The Times just posted a lengthy article by executive editor Bill Keller, which tells the story of last year's WikiLeaks dumps through the eyes of the Gray Lady.
The piece will appear in this coming Times Magazine, but it's really worth reading now. The whole thing is interesting, from its depictions of WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange (he went from a being a disheveled "bag lady" or "derelict" who smelled "as if he hadn't bathed for days" to a stylish "cult figure" who was "evidently a magnet for women") to its lengthy explanation and eloquent defense of the Times' motives. It walks readers through how, and why, the paper chose to highlight the narratives it did. The Times's Dealings With Julian Assange. Artwork by Jenny Morgan (left) and Daniel Gordon (right) I was interested.
The adventure that ensued over the next six months combined the cloak-and-dagger intrigue of handling a vast secret archive with the more mundane feat of sorting, searching and understanding a mountain of data. As if that were not complicated enough, the project also entailed a source who was elusive, manipulative and volatile (and ultimately openly hostile to The Times and The Guardian); an international cast of journalists; company lawyers committed to keeping us within the bounds of the law; and an array of government officials who sometimes seemed as if they couldn't decide whether they wanted to engage us or arrest us. By the end of the year, the story of this wholesale security breach had outgrown the story of the actual contents of the secret documents and generated much breathless speculation that something — journalism, diplomacy, life as we know it — had profoundly changed forever. WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange.
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Hello and welcome to another DHK's blog, sorry I haven't been updating that much. (been a little busy) In this blog, I'll be talking about the new Shonen Jump title called World Trigger. Since, the Anime is coming out, I decide to make this blog about the Manga. I hype about the Anime, but it is being done by Toei (there Anime can be disappointing). I hope they do it justice
It have become one of my favorite Shonen, to read week by week. It take a little while to get moving, but where it start it can't stop. Here I Go! Burning Finger!!! :)
The story is about Neighbors (the name of the dimension aliens) coming to Mikado City to destroy the city and kidnap its people. But, the city was save by a mysterious organization called Border. Our story take place four years later, with our two protagonist. Named Yuma Kuga and Osamu Mikumo, one is a Neighbor and the other is a Border agent.
I like the story, it have a pretty simple plot. It pretty much about, monsters attack the city and our heroes need to protect it, the plot have room to grow into something bigger. World Trigger give me an Bleach vibe, with the mysterious Neighbors attacking the city. But, the difference are that the humans know of the Neighbors and are fighting back with the Neighbors own technology.
I also like how they world build, they don't info dump you in the first chapter. They usually use Osamu (he new to this) to explain things. But I wonder how he got his Trigger without knowing about Trion. I guess Border was randomly giving Triggers away
The thing I didn't like is the school setting, I have been watching/reading Anime/Manga for a long time. The school setting is very old for me and I wish Anime/Manga move past it. But that the only problem I have with World Trigger.
World Trigger have two protagonists, Osamu the goodie two shoes and Yuma who very outspoken. I do like how World Trigger have two protagonists, that are very different from each other. They have an chance to grow from each other as the series go on.
Osamu is a goodie two shoes who become a Border agent to protect people from Neighbors, he will stand up for the little guy if they are being pick on. He won't abuse his power on humans, he believe "it only get worse if you fight back". One of the reason why he join Border, is to fulfill his promise to his tutors. The promise is to protect his little sister Chika Amatori from the Neigbors, if anything happen to him.
At first, I didn't like Osamu. He was to goodie two shoes for me, but he grow on me as the series go on. The thing I like about him is he is a very honest character. He would put his life on the line to protect someone, even though he will get his butt handed to him. That the other part I like about him, that he isn't super smart or super strong. Making his fights more unique, he relay more on his skill to beat his foes.
Yuma is a very outspoken guy, that hate liars. He is a Neighbor, who came from the other side to find his father's friend. Yuma grow up on the battlefields and believe in "An eye for an eye". If you hit him, he'll probably will send you to a hospital. Yuma also have survivor guilt from his father sacrifice, he willing to sacrifice himself to bring his father back to life. Yuma also, hate lies and liars. He'll call the liar out, by saying that was a stupid lie. It easy for him to detect lies, one of his ability is being a walking lie detector
I like Yuma outspoken, he will call people out on there lies and speak his mind. He isn't like other Jump protagonists, who normally are saints and wouldn't use their power to hurt normal people. If someone mess with him, they will get hurt. I also like how experience Yuma is in fight, and don't like to rush into battle. He fight with a cool head and don't yell. His fighting style is reducing the foes movements and then strike hard, I like his fighting style because it not just punching or slashing.
Chika is a shy girl who get attack by Neighbors for her high level of Trion, she isolate herself so nobody else would get hurt from the Neighbors attack. The reason why she isolate herself, is because her friend and her brother was abducted by Neighbors and she blame herself for it.
I feel Chika have potential to be a great character in the future, she learning to fight in order to protect herself and others. It seem like she have overcome her trauma, in a battle. I hope she continue to grow in the future
Jin is an elite Border agent, who inspire Osamu to join Border. He have a lay back personality and have no problems with the Neighbors
Jin to me, have been meh. He do really do anything for me. For me, he just the cool lay back character
The fighting in World Trigger to me feel more like a sport Shonen then battle Shonen, with it heavy use on strategy and team work. The power source of this series is call Trion. Trion can be use to make almost anything from weapons, buildings and artificial life. But Humans or Neighbors can't manipulate it without special technology call Triggers. When they fight, they replace there normal body with a Trion made one. The Trion body is more stronger and more durable then the normal body. The Border's Trion bodies have a special featured call Bail Out, that let the user real body escape from the battle if the Trion Body is badly damage enough. But the features only for Border's agents, for everyone else they will be stuck on the battlefield
This featured remind me of Super Sentai (Power Ranger), how they transform from normal to there uniform. I like how they replace there body with the Trion ones, because the Mangaka can go all out on the battles without worrying about how will they survive in fights to the deaths. The downside to it, it will take a lot to kill characters. But the characters are more worry about saving the town and its people, if they fall in the fight then dozen of normal people will die. (so I think that balance it out)
The villains for World Trigger are mainly Neighbors Trion soldiers. The Trion soldiers are mass produced, bug like robots. They are design to abduct people with high amount of Trion and killing people with low Trion by ripping it out the Trion from the person. The reason why Neighbors are abducting people with high Trion, is because they need more power to fight there enemies. The Neighbors world is in a state of war and need power to win. The second villain, are Border. Most of Border believe Neighbors are evil and should be eliminate on sight.
I enjoy World Trigger, it somewhat unique and is a fun read. I recommend World Trigger to people who want strategy in there Shonen
4/5 (Top Notch)
Anyway, thanks for reading my crazy blog about World Trigger. I hope you give it a shot, and let me know if you like it or not
Hello, everyone! And welcome to another blog by DHK. Today, I'll be talking about two of the Simulcast Manga sites, Viz's Shonen Jump and Crunchyroll's Simulpub. This isn't a verses match, it more of a review (not really a big one) of them. I feel both sites do a good with the Manga they are translating. Also, I doing a Shonen Jump's giveaway. I'll be giveaway a year of Shonen Jump, the details will be at the end of the review. Here we go
Shonen Jump is a digital magazine of the one in Japan, it doesn't have all the series that run in Shonen Jump. But it does have One Piece, Bleach, Naruto, World Trigger, Nisekoi and Toriko. But Viz isn't limit to just Shonen Jump's title, they can get other Jump's titles like One-Punch Man, Blue Exorcist, All You Need is Kill and Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal. Giving our Shonen Jump a little more range, then the one in Japan
The magazine is pretty cheap, it only cost you $0.99 for an issue that you keep on your Viz account. For 12-Month, will cost you $25.99 (a steal). Those are great prices for ten to thirteen chapters a week for a year and some free Yugioh cards (meh). The downside to it, you won't be able to get any of the back issues if you didn't start from the beginning. Also, it only available in Canada, US, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. But, here hoping they will go global in the future
The magazine have good quality, there no watermarks, advertising or anything that mess up the art on the page. The two page spreads are done nicely, but sometime they not perfectly a line (But Viz do go back and fix it). The translation is pretty great, I haven't seen any hiccup with it. But the downside (if you really call it) they still use the English names like Zolo and Soul Reaper. But, I kind of gone over it, and it doesn't bug me anymore.
At the moment Viz have twelve Manga running in Shonen Jump, they are One Piece, Bleach, Naruto, World Trigger, Toriko, Nisekoi, Blue Exorcist, One-Punch Man, All You Need is Kill, Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign, Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal and the new Manga called Stealth Symphony. A big line up, some old and some new. Some of the Manga run on bi-weekly (like Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign and One-Punch Man) and others run monthly (like Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal and Blue Exorcist). The downside, some of the Manga are in the middle of an arc and hard to jump on if you not familiar with the Manga
Viz sometime put extras things in the magazine, like color chapters of One Piece and Naruto or a One-Shot by Masashi Kishimoto. They also do interviews with the Mangaka and have an Author Comments at the end of the magazine. They also did a year of Dragon Ball in color, I have nothing really bad to say about the extras
Simulpub is a little different from Shonen Jump, it not a digital magazine. It work kind of like their anime stream, you don't have to paid to read a chapter. Their range of Manga is greater then Shonen Jump, they have series like Space Brothers, Attack on Titan, Fairy Tail, The Seven Deadly Sins and Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches
It's free! For the current chapter, to read the past chapters you have to have an All-Access Membership or Manga Membership. Which will cost you around 4.95 a month and 39.95 a year (or you can get a guest pass from your friend). The downside, you have to have an All-Access Membership to have both Anime and Manga. You can't have them both without the J-Drama (which I'm not a fan of). Simulpub almost global, I think it missing some counties
I haven't gone through all of the Mangas yet, but what I saw it was pretty good quality with little hiccups in them. The downside, a lot of the two page spreads are not line up correctly (and they haven't fix them yet). And some chapters don't have the color page in color. It really noticeable, I hope they will fix it. The other problem I have is the they also have the English sound effect as big as the the Japanese one. That really bug, I like when the English sound effect is small, being big kind of take away the scene. Last but not lease, is the little boxes on the sides that tell you about the characters, it just bug me
At the moment, Simulpub have Twenty Seven (somewhat up to date) Mangas to read online. The titles are Attack on Titan, Fairy Tail, The Seven Deadly Sins, Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, Mysterious Girlfriend X, Space Brothers, Coppelion, A Town Where You Live, As the Gods Will - The Second Series, Fort of Apocalypse, My Wife is Wagatsuma-san, UQ Holder!, Sun-Ken Rock, Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru, Silver Nina, Inside Mari, Love Theory, Orange, Star Light Woman, Is this Girl for Real!?, Okitenemuru, King's Game: Origin, ReCollection, Action Mask, Arpeggio of Blue Steel, Spirit Circle and Shindo. The good having so making Manga, is that you have a wide selection. But the downside is that most of them are still running and Simulpub is taking it time translating the past chapters
Simulpub don't have any extras
My final thoughts, are they both are pretty good with some downsides (that I hope they will fix). I hope in the future their be more official Simulcast of Manga, I would love to have Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Magi, Vinland Saga and Silver Spoon. Thanks for reading and remember to support the Anime/Manga industry
Ok, time for the SJ giveaway. You have to comment on my blog about the the topic and I'll write all your names down (once) and go to a randomizer site to see the win. This giveaway will end in the end of the month
Sorry if their was any typo.
katmic - Coppelion: Aesthetically Beautiful &..Nothing More
Hello, everyone! And welcome to another blog by DHK. Sorry, I haven't been writing that much blogs, I have been busy with life and also sorry for not doing that contest I said I'll do in the last blog (I still planning to do it, just need the time). Any who, before January ends I'll do my top 5 list of 2013. I decided to go with the best chapters of last year, because last year was the year of the Simulcasting Manga. With that said, here is my rules for my list
There will be spoilers in this list
I guess, I'll start with one honorable mention. This chapter is awesome, but didn't cut it for the real list
This was an amazing chapter of One Piece, it have one of the best moments in the series. The reveal of Sabo was nicely done, and both him and Koala being part of the Revolutionary Army and Koala being the first human user of Fishman Karate was just amazing and made sense in story. And we found about Toy Soldier's plan and the person behind turning people into Toys. It was all round a good chapter. But I don't feel it was the best for this year
This was an amazing chapter of Fairy Tail, it build up the villain of the arc to be a force to deal and show how dangers they our by taking out Laxus and his Thunder God Tribe and killing one hundred people. That show, the usual Fairy Tail's brute force won't work on these new enemies and they have to be more careful. But with recent FT chapters the villain feel like the same villains from the other arcs, so I hope FT build threat back up
World Trigger didn't start out that good, but it have been growing on me. This chapter show Yuma wasn't like the other Shonen heroes who usually new to everything and pure, Yuma is different because he already a skillful soldier who have seen combat in has day. He pretty much a cold blood killer when he isn't making a duck face. He pretty much destroy Shun Midorikawa for disrespecting his pal Osamu
This chapter was a great battle chapter, it introduce one of my favorite characters of the Deadly Sins, Holy Knight Guila. I really enjoy the art and the action, it show Guila was a force to deal and how far she'll go to inforce her sense of Justice. I also like the fact nobody really explain their powers to the enemy (Bleach), it them feel more smarter in figuring out their enemy powers. Also the cliffhanger with Ban and King was cool
One-Punch Man is one of my favorite Manga at the moment, I love the story and the art it was an all round good manga. Anyway, this bonus chapter was amazing. It show us the point of view of a police force in a super hero world and how they are being overshadow by the Superheroes. In the mainstream comics, we never really a view of the police and how they feel about the heroes, they usually cart the villain to jail or high five Spider-Man for doing a good job. It was pretty cool seeing the police's point of view in the matter
This is my favorite chapter of 2013, this chapter is the reason why I love One Piece. It pretty much show you how important Don Quixote Doflamingo title as Warlord is, it pretty much throw some countries into chaos. We also get to see the new Warlord the Genius Jester Buggy and it stand up the villains of the arc pretty well. And last but not lease, we found out Doffy have the Flame-Flame Fruit
Well, that my list for 2013. I might have miss some stuff, but I feel pretty good about this list. Tell me what you think about my list and share with me, your favorite chapters of 2013. Next blog (I'm hope) is Viz's Shonen Jump vs Simulpub
Thanks for reading and remember to support the Anime/Manga industry
Sorry if their was any typos.
Hello to everyone, this is DHK with another blog. I been playing a lot of Pokemon X on my 3DS, while I was playing old memories of the Pokemon Anime was popping into my head. And I start thinking about some of my favorite characters in the show Team Rocket. So in this blog I will be talking about Jessie, James and Meowth of Team Rocket is the protagonist of Pokemon. Yes, I know it sound funny and stupid, and I wasting my time and yours. But hear me out on this, I will try to make a case for them. So prepare for trouble, and make it one :/
Jessie, James and Meowth have the best back story in the Pokemon Anime. other character's back story are non existent, like Ash (who we do even know his father). In order to know more about a character, you have to know where they come from
I'll will start with James back story. James was born in a rich family, he got whatever his little heart can wish for, from food, Pokemon and toys. He truly have the good life, until his parents decided James will have a fiancée, name Jessebelle. Jessebelle is a bossy and spoil rich girl. She begin to tell James how to live his. She try to change James into something he is not. One day, James got sick of it and run away from home. Taking his Koffing with him and leaving Growlie to protect his parents.
Jessie was the opposite, she grow up in a poor foster home. She have little money and couldn't afford toys to play with or sometime food to eat. In the winter times, her foster mother make snow with soy sauce on it. Sometime later, someone catch an Ekans for her a gift. After some years, she left home to become a Pokemon Nurse, but she fail the test. Instead of giving up, she apply to another Pokemon Nurse School. But this time it was a school for Chanseys. She met an Chansey and they become friends. But Jessie fail again to graduate, instead of trying again she left to try something else.
Meowth grow up on the streets, with little food and no one to look after him. Meowth was so hungry, that he thought baseballs was food and try to eat it. The coach caught him trying to eat the baseballs, instead of helping the poor Pokemon the coach beat up poor Meowth and tied him to a tree. Hours later, Meowth wake up from his coma in time for a movie in a park. The movie was about a Meowth going to Hollywood having a good and ice cream. Our Meowth, decide to go to Hollywood. Where he think he will be treated better, so he got untie and jump on a car to Hollywood. Where he got there, Hollywood wasn't all gumdrops and ice cream he thought it was. He still have to play the survive game, that he was so bad at. But a gang of Meowth led by a Persian, show him the ropes and let him join there little gang. Sometime later, Meowth met the Pokemon of his dreams, a female Meowth named Meowzie. Our Meowth, try to ask her out but she rejected him by basically saying he poor and isn't a human. Heartbroken, Meowth decide to learn to be a human in hope Meowzie would fell for him. It take him months to learn how to walk like humans and talk like humans. He quit the Persian's gang, so he can focus on being human. Meowth have learn human language and able to walk like one at the cost of not being able to learn any new moves. He met Meowzie again to impress her, but she rejected him again, because he was poor and now is a freak. Heartbroken again, Meowth left Hollywood
Years later. Both Jessie and James enrolled into Pokemon Tech, where they met for the first time. The two become friends, but there grades was so bad that they drop out of school. Some time later, Jessie and Jamie join and become leaders of a bike gang in Sunny Town. There nicknames was Little Jim (for James) and Chainer Jessie (For Jessie). They was part a bike gang for awhile, but both of them quit to join Team Rocket where they first met Meowth and become the trio we all love
Team Rocket back stories all are interested and give a reason why they act the way they do. Why Ash want to be a Pokemon Master, because it is in the strip. While James join Team Rocket to be free and anything he want to do, Jessie join Team Rocket to become a big shot and live the good life and Meowth join to get more attention (Still wondering why nobody is interested in Meowth, he a talking Pokemon who understand other Pokemon). It seem like the creators put a lot of time on Team Rocket back stories then any other characters of the Pokemon Anime
Team Rocket have a lot of personality, then the other characters. They not just playing the bad guy role, they sometime help the twerps or just help others out of the goodness of there hearts (even though they will decline it). James have have a sense of honor when he do contests (like in PokeRinger), he will refuse to cheat or ask the others to cheat for him. But he will cheat if he is losing so badly, but he did grow out of it later. He treat his family and friends with respect and put his life on the line to them from hurt.
Jessie seem to be a heartless lady, but she does have a soft spot for her friends. She will help them with there problems. Like when she met her old friend Blissey from the Pokemon Nurse School, Blissey have given Team Rocket all the food in the Pokemon Center because they was dying of hunger. Instead of Jessie being happy she getting all that food, she have a worry look on her face, because she know Blissey will get fire for giving them the food. So she come back with the others, and say they trick Blissey into giving them the food. This show Jessie more layers to her character. And I can't really think of a moment with Meowth, the only one I can think of where he could life the good life with a village who see him as a god.
With Ash and the others are just goody to shoes, Team Rocket have more layers then the twerps. It seem like the creators like Team Rocket more then the Ash and the others
Team Rocket are the best characters and have the best episodes of the Pokemon Anime. So I feel they are protagonist of the Pokemon Anime, now enjoy this nostalgia video
Anyway, thank you for reading my crazy blog. I will try to make more blogs weekly, next one might be about the US Shonen Jump and I might hold a contest for a free year of (paid by me) Shonen Jump. (Have to ask viz if it ok first) Sorry if their was any typo.
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UQ Holder! is the sequel to Negima! Magister Negi Magi, the Harem/Shonen/Action Manga.
UQH, take place over many years after Negima, the two main characters of this Manga are Yukihime and her adopted son Touta Konoe. The manga start with Evangeline A.K. McDowell (from Negima) talking about the bad side of immortality. After that prologue, we meet the main character of the story Touta Konoe up in a tree. He and his friends are waiting to attack demon teacher Mrs. Yukihime. Touta and his merry men, all swing from the tree with their wooden swords in hope of striking the demon teacher down. But they hit an invisible wall and are one-shotted by the demon teacher.
Late at school, the boys are being punish for the easier attack. Mrs. Yukihime explain the rules of the village, if anyone is able to get a defend her they would get a free pass to the capital and she then continue saying that it better living in the countryside then the city. One of Touta's friends pointed out that Mrs. Yukihime was using some kind of barrier, Touta then call out foul play because she can use magic and none of them can. Mrs. Yukihime say stop your complaining, I raise you better, and then kick them all out of the class
Afterward, Mrs. Yukihime is in the teacher lounge listening to Mr. Tachibana who is a big fan of Magic. He explain, a decade ago people discover Magic and it rare to see a Magic user. He continue saying that normal people are able to use Magic app on their phone, but it very expensive to use one spell. He then he want Mrs. Yukihime to teach the kids how to use Magic so they can get a head in life. She decline cause the kids might abuse that kind of powers
Meanwhile, Touta is praying at his parents and grandfather grave. We then find out his parents die in a car crash two years ago, he and Mrs. Yukihime was the only two survivors of the crash and that he can't remember anything after the accident. He then envy his friend of being more skillful then he is, but his friends tell him don't be down on himself and he good at punching things. Touta then thank them for being good friends.
Later that night, Touta attempt another surprise attack on Mrs. Yukihime at their home. But she block all five attempts and then she counter attack that nearly kill Touta, but it only break the floor. Later, Touta is fixing dinner and ask Mrs. Yukihime to teach him Magic, but she decline. We then get a flashback about Mrs. Yukihime standing over three dying people, a woman then beg her to save her child. The flashback continue with how Touta and Mrs. Yukihime meet. After the flashback Mrs. Yukihime offend to take Touta to the Zoo next Sunday, but he turn her down by saying he is to older for the Zoo and he will beat her one day and start training.
Next day, Touta and his friends try to attack Mrs. Yukihime again, but they fail. Sometime later, Mr. Tachibana offend the boys Magic powers to beat Mrs. Yukihime next time. The boys practice their new found powers, but Touta then find out he can't use Magic. So Mr. Tachibana give him a bracelet that would give them a edge in the fight. Later that night, Touta give the bracelet to Mrs. Yukihime.
Next day, Mrs. Yukihime is attack by two of Touta's friends. They use their new Magic powers to Magic bind her, then she try to counter attack with her Magic but it won't activate. The boys then take the opportunity to finish their teacher, but they are quickly knock out by Mr. Tachibana. He then reveal to be a bounty hunter after Mrs. Yukihime's 600,000,000 yen bounty. Touta have arrive to the location, angry at the fact he can't use the Magic teleporting app. He then see Mr. Tachibana trying to kill Mrs. Yukihime, he then attack Mr. Tachibana. But he quickly lose his arm, Mr. Tachibana then explain survival of the fittest and try to deliver the final blow. But Mrs. Yukihime block the attack, and say she is proud of Touta. Mr. Tachibana then cut her to pieces, Touta is traumatize at the fact that he the one to blame for this. Mr. Tachibana then stab Touta through the heart. Then Touta hear Mrs. Yukihime talking to him, she explain he isn't a ordinary human that he can save his friends if he drink her blood. But she warn the price he have to paid, if he choose to drink. He drink the blood and recover from his injuring and punch Mr. Tachibana to a van, knocking him out. Touta then pass out
Afterward, he wake up to find Mrs. Yukihime holding. She then explain that she is a 700 year ago vampire and that her real name is Evangeline A.K. McDowell, and she is sorry for cursing Touta to the same fate. But Touta punch her in the gut and say you do need to apologize, that he is glad that she was alive and that he doesn't mine living forever
After the event, Mrs. Yukihime and Touta decide to leave town, so they won't cause anymore problems. They are heading to the capital, New Tokyo
I'm so happy that Ken Akamatsu is returning to the Negima's universe, I always love seeing the after match of the happy ending (can't wait to see Jack Rakan). Also glad it going to a smaller cast this time around, it was really hard to remember everyone names last time. Anyway, I was glad seeing Eva playing a bigger role this time around, I was always interested in her character in Negima. I also was interested that Touta's grandfather was Negi Springfield and he seem to be dead.
I only have a couple of problems, in that the main character is just a shonen main character with amnesia. I hope Akamatsu fresh him out later. The other problem I have is that his friends didn't have names, it was kind of hard to worry for their lives. Also, I wondering what UQ Holder mean? All in all, I can't wait for the next chapter
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A review conducted by the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center (MVAC) this fall reports that one of the stone weapons found is a Raddatz/Osceola point, a broad, curved blade that was made by late or middle Archaic Period hunters between 3000 B.C. to 1500 B.C. Stone points can be roughly dated by their style alone, because ancient peoples during different eras of American prehistory had distinctive ways of forming their tools. Archaic era people shaped the Raddatz/Osceola points from chert stone and strapped them to wooden shafts with U-shaped notches.
If the MVAC archaeologists are right and the Minnesota state archaeologist has been sought to confirm their judgment the point is one of the oldest ever found in Winona County. Depending on where it falls within the MVAC's estimated age range, the Raddatz point is either the oldest or second oldest point to be discovered in the county, according to the La Crosse researchers.
It is not unusual for modern plows to turn up the implements of preagricultural people, and before the place was a landfill, it was the Haake family farm. The Haakes collected a number of arrowheads during their field work in the early 20th century. "Back then everything was horses no electricity, no tractors and you walked behind the plow and you did a lot of hoeing in the corn, so you actually knew what the soil was like," explained Iris Haake, describing how her husband, Roy, would occasionally find the stone implements among the crops. For years, the Haakes thought little of the points, until county staff promoting a park plan on the property encouraged the Haakes to submit photos of the ancient tools to the MVAC. The Haakes said they had the points framed so they would not lose them in a drawer. They never imagined they were particularly important. "My word, it was just unbelievable," Iris commented, describing her reaction to the news.
The other handful of points, stone knives, and hammerstones Roy Haake found are younger, Woodland Period (500 B.C. - 1200 A.D.) tools. Woodland relics are far more common, found on 26 sites in Winona County alone.
Archaic era relics are somewhat rare. "The Archaic Period is the longest lasting prehistoric period, but in many ways it is the poorest known," wrote Minnesota State Archaeologist Scott Anfinson, explaining the potential significance of the find he is still verifying. "Thousands of Archaic points have no doubt been found in Southeastern Minnesota by private collectors, but very few have been recovered by archaeologists in controlled excavations."
Archaic era people lived in a time of shifting climates, after the last glaciers retreated and smaller, modern game replaced the giant Ice Age mammals. They were hunter-gatherers who travelled in bands of 20 or 30. They chased deer and other game with stone spears, and sometimes flung the spears using levers called atlatls. They traded over long distances and were the first people to make tools from copper, according to the MVAC.
There are no plans for an archaeological exploration of the former landfill site, and the Haakes' find does not necessarily mean that Stone Point is home to more, significant artifacts. Archaeologists "don't know for sure if that was just a nomadic group that happened to drop a couple things" as they were walking or if the old Haake farm was a regular haunt for them, explained Winona County Planning and Environmental Services Director Jason Gilman. The Archaic people were nomadic hunter-gatherers who followed game. They were less far-ranging than their mammoth-chasing forebears and would sometimes return to the same camps, but did not form permanent villages, according to the MVAC. "The large majority of the landfill has been disturbed," Gilman pointed out, meaning that if there had been more artifacts at Stone Point, many of them may have already been disturbed.
"Projectile points are the most common artifact to be found without anything else as they can be the remains of a projectile a person shot or threw and then lost or they could have been embedded in an animal that carried it to that spot," Anfinson wrote when asked about the likelihood of more artifacts at Stone Point. "Most prehistoric villages and campsites are found near significant bodies of water, however, so this would indeed be a likely spot." Stone Point Park lies between West Burns Valley Creek and East Burns Valley Creek.
Before the Archaic era point was identified, a proposal to make a park out of the former landfill dubbed the place "Stone Point," for the Haake family's discoveries. The county is applying for grant funding for the park project. County leaders also recently suggested that the county study the possibility of operating a quarry at the site, a likely source of gravel and aggregate. Having its own source of rock could save the county hundreds of thousands of dollars on the many road projects it conducts each year, county officials estimate. Development at known archaeological sites is subject to state review. Disturbing burial grounds is forbidden, and excavation is sometimes required before development, Anfinson explained.


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Thanks Doug Thompson for nailing these two cretins to the wall on a public forum.
These two characters along with their empathizers are poster children for that which represents "core rot"… : |
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Horrific disasters like the earthquake that leveled the capital city of Haiti with a death toll that may top 100,000 brings out the best and worst of people.
The best can be found in the millions of Americans who contacted relief agencies over the past two days and contributed their sparse and hard-earned dollars to help. The best is also found in the rescue workers who headed into the ravaged island nation to try and find survivors.
The worst can be found in right-wing blowhard Rush Limbaugh and religious charletons like Pat Robertson.
Robertson, the fundamentalist minister who justifies attacks on anything he doesn't like on "God's will," delivered his standard mantra that the earthquake is punishment from on high. Limbaugh sat on his fat ass in his Florida studio and urged Americans not to contribute to relief in Haiti because "you already contribute through your tax dollars." Limbaugh also said President Barack Obama and the Democratic party would milk the disaster in Haiti for political gain.
I normally expect the worst in humanity from sub-human dregs like Limbaugh and Robertson but their behavior sinks to new depths of depraved indifference.
Haiti is a corrupt nation where the United States has squandered millions in aid and assistance but the thousands of Haitians killed in this week's earthquake and the thousands more left homeless are victims of a natural disaster that has nothing to do with politics, corruption or wasted taxpayer funds. They need help and compassion not bluster from self-annointed preachers of the word of God or diatribes from pompous right-wing zealots.
Fortunately, the compassion and humanity of Americans far outnumbers the callous inhumanity of cretins like Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson.
Score one for America.
Thanks Doug Thompson for nailing these two cretins to the wall on a public forum.
These two characters along with their empathizers are poster children for that which represents "core rot"… : |
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Unfortunately, Carl, these two "cretins" as you and Doug call them, have a HUGE following of largely ignorant lemmings who keep buying into their "rot".
And all the while people (and advertizers) keep underwriting such filth, the perpretrators of same will remain emboldened to continue spreading it among the population.
Our Founding Fathers wrote freedom of the press into our Constitution. But they DIDN'T guarantee the accuracy or tactfulness of that press.
This, in turn, means that it's up to each of us to determine what is "rot" and what isn't. And, fortunately, we still have a choice as to whether we listen to (and/or swallow) such pompous, right wing blather or not. Eventually, if enough of us stop donating and/or buying their advertizer's products, their "bully pulpit" will eventually dry up.
But if horrifically ignroant people continue to buy into and support such rot, that's an education problem, not a regulatory one.
On the other hand, I've long believed that BOTH of these clowns ought to be registered, treated and TAXED as lobbyists rather than as mere peddlers of religious or political opinion.
Hi keith,
These serpent tongued men, both Rush and Pat are engaged in bearing false witness, violating the eighth commandment of the "Decalogue" also known as the 10 Commandments.
Both of these characters make their way by fomenting unrest predicated on their endless, cunning lies one in the name Jesus and the other in the name of "free speech" and the serving of his corporate sponsors; ie, his masters.
I'm not for censorship, but these two guys are pushing the envelope and those that both support and adulate them are cut from the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.
Rush is sticking to his position as of tonight. Geeze the man just had a close call with death. You'd think he'd have some sense of his mortality balanced with humility; but no, he's incorrigable and intransigent relative his skewed position. Possibly he's insane?
As far as Robertson is concerned, there's simply no hope. He's an incredibly wealthy man as a function of his followers of many years and the fact that his ill-gotten largesse is tax exempt!
Yep, they have their followers and they too are tragic, unthinking souls, but as the Christian bible says…"for many are called, but few are chosen" which includes this mass of blind followers.
Rest assured Rush and Pat will be shoveling coal in the devils boiler room for eternity; ie., if there is such a punishment in the afterlife and the 10 Commandments are the real deal; ie., handed down to Moses on the Mount… : |
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I am just amazed at these two cretin's lack of heart. It's a wonder that they still have people that care about them with that attitude. I'm just wondering when the next idiot will chime in saying that "God" will "bring them home" if they don't get so much money to send them by a certain time. If I remember correctly wasn't it Pat Robertson that did that?
This brings to mind long ago when as a family Dad took us to the county seat to get Polio inoculations. At the age of four when I heard the word Shots all forms of terror welled up in my mind and I tried to escape the dreaded masters who assuredly in my mind were going to harm me in the most terrible of fashion.
On the brink of success my dear sister corralled me and as she marched me towards the door I saw a child not much older than I slumped in a wheelchair unmoving and barely responsive. Do you want to be like that someone said?
To this day empathy and the fear that it should leave my conscience lacking, haunts my soul.
Truly those who are bent to the wheel of gain will wear away but not before some harm is done. They cannot be ignored nor pitied, only sentenced to the bowels of their own personal hells.
Let men and women of character be the millstone that grinds away at such who prosper from pain. Give them wide breadth and little voice. As unleavened bread, they rise only if we supply the yeast of bigotry, ignorance, and apathy.
Does any one actually listen to Pat Robertson? Pretty sad, but he's not alone.
Actor Danny Glover proposes that this tragedy if some kind of retribution for the failure of Copenhagen.
It seems both religions have similar talking points.
Call me crazy, but I think it might just be a natural occurence. History suggests these things happen all the time.
Rush is technically right in that any thing the government spends money on is ultimately up to the taxpayers to fund. But using that as a reason to not donate to the suffering – if you are of the mind and the means – is just plain buffoonery. But we've come to expect that from Rush.
Being the optimist that I am, I wouldn't grade the rest of America much better. Sure it's nice to see this kind of outreach and compassion, particularly when times are tough at home. I would expect nothing less.
But what of the tragedy of war? Eight plus years in Afghanistan. Almost seven years in Iraq. Human tragedy and ruin far surpassing the events in Haiti.
You can't blame god or global warming for these.
American government -backed corporations looting the third world and enslaving their populations to produce goods we can barely afford now. It seems slavery never really was abolished – we just figured a way to avoid the shipping costs.
Sure, score one for America, but we have a lot of catching up to do.
Definitely, it is time to stop trying to outrun ourselves..
I think the appropriate moniker for each would be "snake oil salesman".
Unfortunately, such persons have been successfully parting people from their hard-earned savings since man first walked upright on the planet. Indeed, leeches and bottom-feeders perform much the same function throughout the rest of the food chain.
As far as "blind followers" goes, PT Barnum probably said it best when he noted that, "There's a sucker born every minute."
So, in that sense, I really have no sympathy for people who steadfastly refuse to let facts get in the way of their belief in the sanctity of such obvious frauds.
Let it rip, please..
A few years back there were endless TV ads along with radio ads for psychics and phone sex. I heard so many people that I knew complain about the ads.
There's only one reason those ads were running. Somebody was buying their services.
The same applies to religious fanatics such as Roberts, and of course the many radio and TV pundits who have become demi-gods in their own right.
We also have a large class of people in our nation who don't, won't, or can't think for themselves when it comes to our political and government institution. Let me add to this line of thought by saying that the same applies to many folks who pledge their commentment to a religious organization.
So, it's obvious that so many are willing, for whatever the reason, to surrender their opinions, choices, or decision making to somebody else…and usually at an incredible price whether through donation or by legislative force.
"The best can be found in the millions of Americans who contacted relief agencies over the past two days and contributed their sparse and hard-earned dollars to help. The best is also found in the rescue workers who headed into the ravaged island nation to try and find survivors."
It is also important to recognize the tremendous efforts of the U.S. Government in this instant. To some, any accolades to the American Government invokes their ultra sensitive gag reflex. Especially when it comes to giving the "Magic Negro" his due.


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